FSD3493 Finnish Working Life Barometer 2019
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Study title
Finnish Working Life Barometer 2019
Dataset ID Number
FSD3493
Persistent identifier
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3493Data Type
Quantitative
Authors
- Statistics Finland. Interview and Survey Services
- Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
Abstract
The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes included organisation of work, development opportunities and flexibility, learning and training at work, wages, workplace bullying, capacity to work, and changes in working life. Questions in the barometer have mainly remained the same each year. The 2019 collection round included new questions regarding work engagement, stress and perceived workload.
First, the respondents were asked about the number of people employed at their workplace, changes in the number of staff, distribution of work and tasks, and implementation of new working methods and systems over the past 12 months. Satisfaction in the working environment was charted with questions about openness, encouragement and equality in the workplace, job stability, and opportunities for employees to develop and apply new ideas. Further questions covered measures taken to improve employees' capacity to work, safety of work environment, and skills of employees. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age, gender, type of job contract, and health status was explored. Incidents of bullying, harassment and violence at work were surveyed.
The next set of questions investigated the respondents' membership in a trade union or professional association, flexible working time arrangements at the workplace, pay and bonus systems, and satisfaction with the pay level. The respondents' participation in job-related training and the contents of the training (e.g. IT, leadership skills, communication skills) were surveyed. The development of the workplace was also investigated. The use of virtual workspaces and social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs as part of work tasks was charted.
Autonomy at work was surveyed by asking about influence over own work tasks and working pace, over the distribution of work in the workplace, and about working to a tight schedule. The respondents were asked about working outside the main workplace as well as work-related calls, emails and messages they had had to attend to outside their official working hours in the past 12 months.
One set of questions investigated the employees' perceived workload, capacity to work, estimates of own mental and physical capacity to work, and sickness absences. Additionally, the respondents' experiences of stress, mental exhaustion, and excitement related to work were surveyed. The respondents were asked how likely they thought it was that they would be dismissed or temporarily laid off, or that their tasks would change over the next year. Finally, views were probed on the respondents' likelihood of getting an equal job if they became unemployed, on the general employment situation in Finland, possible changes in working life in general, and the employer's financial situation.
Background variables included, among others, the respondent's year of birth, age, gender, status in employment, employer type, industry of employment, type of contract, weekly working hours, overtime, and socioeconomic status.
Keywords
career development; employees; employment; employment opportunities; expectation; flexible working time; hours of work; job satisfaction; occupational life; telework; wages; working conditions; workplace bullying
Topic Classification
- Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
- Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)
- Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)
- Labour relations/conflict (CESSDA Topic Classification)
- Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
- Occupational health (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Series
Finnish Working Life BarometersDistributor
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Data Collector
- Statistics Finland
Time Period Covered
2019
Collection Dates
2019-08-05 – 2019-10-02
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis/Observation Unit Type
Individual
Universe
Finnish-speaking employees aged 18-64 who regularly worked at least 10 hours a week
Time Method
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Sampling Procedure
Probability: Stratified
The Working Life Barometer interviews were conducted in connection with the Labour Force Survey data collection, which took place in August 2019. The Labour Force Survey data collection is based on a stratified random sample drawn from the Statistics Finland population database. The Labour Force Survey is a panel study where one person is interviewed five times. The sample of a single month of data collection consists of five rotation groups that have been included in the study at different times.
From the Labour Force Survey sample, Finnish-speaking employees aged 18-64 who had responded being employed for at least 10 hours a week were selected for the Working Life Barometer. The sample for the Working Life Barometer 2019 was drawn from the second, third and fourth rotation groups with the limitations set by the population under study. The sample size in 2019 was 2,096 persons and the number of respondents was 1,555 persons.
Collection Mode
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
78.4
Data File Language
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Number of Cases and Variables
116 variables and 1555 cases.
Data Version
1.0
Completeness of Data and Restrictions
The data delivered to FSD included the following variables that contain only missing values: [sose] socioeconomic status, [toimi2] industry of employment, [tysuhpy] type of work contract, and [tsuhaika] how long the respondent had been working with present job contract (in years).
The data delivered to FSD do not include background information collected from registers: level of education [ukaste] and [ukaste2] and region/area of residence [kumu], [avi] and [ely].
Weighting
The data contain a weight variable [tb_paino] which weights the data to correspond to target population distributions of gender, 10-year age groups, NUTS2 major regions, and socioeconomic status. The target population was estimated based on the Labour Force Survey sample, meaning that it consists of employees who regularly worked at least 10 hours a week.
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Bibliographical Citation
Statistics Finland & Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment: Finnish Working Life Barometer 2019 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2020-12-22). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3493
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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
Keyriläinen, Marianne (2020). Työolobarometri 2019. Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön julkaisuja 2020:53. Helsinki: Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-327-541-6
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Kankkunen, K. 2021. Työssä vaikuttamisen yhteys stressiin [kandidaatintutkielma]. Kasvatustieteiden laitos. Jyväskylän yliopisto.
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