Study title

Housing Conditions and Preferences of Higher Education Students in Tampere 2016

Dataset ID Number

FSD3127

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3127

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Lehtinen, Jarmo (City of Tampere)
• Partanen, Jussi (City of Tampere)

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• A workgroup consisting of representatives from the City of Tampere, student apartment organizations of Tampere, the higher education institutions of Tampere, and student organizations in all three higher education institutions participated in conducting and designing the study. The workgroup was assembled by the City of Tampere.

Abstract

The survey charted the housing conditions of higher education students in Tampere, Finland. The survey was divided into three main themes: current housing situation, housing preferences, and housing situation during studies.

Regarding housing situation at the time of the survey, the questions surveyed type of housing the respondents lived in (housing type and housing tenure), household composition (number of roommates, children), size of housing (number of rooms and surface area), housing costs, distance to own university and city centre, travel time from home to university, and satisfaction with and opinions on housing.

Concerning housing preferences, the respondents were asked which type of housing they would have preferred to live in, whether they were looking for new accommodation and what kind, what their attitude towards student housing was, how important they thought different things when looking for accommodation, in which neighbourhoods they would have wanted to live during their studies, how much they would have been prepared to pay for housing of their preference per month, and how much they thought reasonable housing costs for a student would be per month.

Finally, with regard to housing situation during studies, the respondents were asked whether they had first moved out of their parents' house for studies, whether they had had diffculties in finding accommodation at the beginning of studies, how many different places and student apartments they had lived in during studies, how many months in total they had lived in student apartments, and, if they had moved house, reasons for moving.

Background variables included the respondent's employment situation, marital status, disposable income per month, expected year of graduation, education level, and education and occupations of parents. Furthermore, the data contain background variables based on register data. These include the respondent's higher learning institution, age, gender, nationality, municipality of domicile and place of residence, the year R began their studies, faculty, and degree.

Keywords

apartments; cost of living; home sharing; housing; housing conditions; income; living conditions; neighbourhoods; rented accommodation; rents; students (college)

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Housing (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Community, urban and rural life (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Data Collector

• Hautakangas, Sami (University of Tampere. Study Services)
• Kurlin, Ari (University of Tampere. Career Services)
• Markkola, Mikko (University of Tampere. Study Services)

Time Period Covered

2016

Collection Dates

2016-02-01 – 2016-02-21

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Tampere

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Students completing their bachelor's or master's degree in higher education institutions in Tampere

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The survey was sent by email to all 24,740 enrolled students of higher education institutions in Tampere. Responses were received from 2,617 students.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

10.6

Data File Language

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The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

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Data Version

2.0

Related Datasets

FSD3021 Housing Conditions and Preferences of Higher Education Students in Tampere 2011

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Because of an error in the question form, the subquestions for question 36 only accepted answers with three digits. Therefore, the data for these variables may be incomplete.

Variables containing information on the respondents' municipality of domicile and place of residence, age, year of starting studies, and nationality were categorised during archiving for privacy reasons. Furthermore, open-ended questions of the type "other, please specify" were removed from variables q1 (type of residence) and q14 (transportation method from home to the institution), as well as open-ended question q40 enquiring the year of starting studies in another institution. Identifiers such as municipalities or learning institution names were removed from the remaining open-ended responses, and the changes were marked with square brackets.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Lehtinen, Jarmo (City of Tampere) & Partanen, Jussi (City of Tampere): Housing Conditions and Preferences of Higher Education Students in Tampere 2016 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2019-01-09). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3127

Deposit Requirement

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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.

Related Materials

Partanen, Jussi (2016). Tampereen korkeakouluopiskelijoiden asuminen 2016. Tampere: Tampereen kaupunki. Konserniohjausyksikkö. Asuntotoimi.

Related Publications

Partanen, Jussi (2016). Tampereen korkeakouluopiskelijoiden asuminen 2016. Tampere: Tampereen kaupunki. Konserniohjausyksikkö. Asuntotoimi.