Study title

Employment Survey of Tampere University Postgraduates 2008-2009

Dataset ID Number

FSD3059

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3059
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3059

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Honkanen, Johanna (University of Tampere. Career Services)
• Ollikainen, Jyrki (University of Tampere. Faculty of Information Sciences)
• Pajunen, Sari (University of Tampere. Career Services)

Abstract

Employment Survey of Tampere University Postgraduates 2008-2009, collected in 2011, charted the employment situation of University of Tampere postgraduates who had received their degree in 2008-2009. The respondents were asked about their motivation for the postgraduate studies, the financing of their studies, employment after graduation, current employment, views on the education they received, and how postgraduate education should be developed at the University of Tampere.

The respondents were asked to evaluate how well certain statements corresponded with their motivation for postgraduate studies. The statements included: "I believed it would be easier for me to find a job after graduating" and "I wanted to research a particular subject". Some questions investigated the financing of the respondents' postgraduate studies. Next, the respondents' employment after graduation and possible difficulties with finding a job were also studied. Possible problems included: "Lack of work experience" and "The subject of doctoral thesis".

The next part of the survey focused on the current employment status of the respondents. This included questions on the respondent's current job description and salary. The respondents were also asked whether the postgraduate degree was a requirement for their current job, how well the job corresponded with their education, and whether their doctoral thesis was related to their current job. Furthermore, the respondents were asked to evaluate their satisfaction with their current job with statements such as: "My work is interesting" and "I have too much work to do". In the last part of the survey, the respondents were asked to evaluate the guidance they had received during their postgraduate education and their satisfaction with the postgraduate education in the University of Tampere. The respondents were also asked to evaluate how they thought postgraduate education should be developed.

Background variables included gender, field of study, degree programme, and degree completion time.

Keywords

appointment to job; career development; educational certificates; employment opportunities; higher education institutions; labour and employment; labour force; post-graduates; tertiary education (second stage)

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Higher and further education (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Employment Surveys of Tampere University Graduates

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• University of Tampere. Career Services

Time Period Covered

2008 – 2009

Collection Dates

2011

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Tampere

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Postgraduates of the University of Tampere who received their degree in 2008-2009

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The survey was sent to all postgraduates of University of Tampere who had received their degree in 2008-2009. The survey was sent to 248 people of whom 141 answered.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

57

Data File Language

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Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Some background variables, such as nationality, previous degrees, municipality of residence and age, were removed from the data to protect confidentiality. Some variables were also re-categorised (main employer q12, income q21 and degree completion time q34). Some open-ended responses were removed, such as responses of the type "other, please specify", job titles, the "feedback" variable (q31) and other variables with a notable amount of identifiers or variables with information that has already been categorised in other variables. All remaining open-ended responses were anonymised so that respondents or third parties are not identifiable. The anonymisations were marked with [square brackets]. All English-language open responses were removed. The data were processed using the national-level questionnaire, because the questionnaire used for the University of Tampere is not available. The questionnaire published on Aila is the national-level questionnaire. One of the Tampere-specific variables that are missing from the questionnaire was included in the data and is coded as t2.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Honkanen, Johanna (University of Tampere) & Ollikainen, Jyrki (University of Tampere) & Pajunen, Sari (University of Tampere): Employment Survey of Tampere University Postgraduates 2008-2009 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-02-01). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3059

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Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

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