Study title

Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Employers 2021

Dataset ID Number

FSD3687

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3687

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Mäkinen, Niklas (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Ojala, Satu (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Abstract

The study surveyed how public employment and business services contributed to unemployed people finding part-time or full-time employment in Finland. This survey examined the recruiting practices of different organisations regarding part-time and temporary employment as well as how the organisations had utilised public employment and business services when recruiting new employees. FSD holdings contain two related datasets: FSD3686 Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Job Seekers 2021 and FSD3688 Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Experts in TE Offices and Local Government 2021.

The survey consisted mainly of open-ended questions. The respondents were asked how many of their organisation's employees had part-time or temporary contracts and what public employment and business services they had utilised when recruiting part-time or temporary employees (e.g. recruitment events, pay subsidies). Questions also surveyed the organisation's experiences of recruiting partially disabled employees and immigrants. Views on the obligation to offer extra work to part-time employees before hiring a new employee were also charted.

Background variables included the sector of the respondent's organisation, the respondent's position within the organisation, and number of employees in the organisation.

Keywords

employment; employment programmes; employment services; job hunting; labour market; part-time employment; return-to-work incentives; temporary employment; unemployed; unemployment; unemployment benefits

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Labour and employment policy (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Mäkinen, Niklas (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Ojala, Satu (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Funders

• Valtioneuvosto (VN TEAS)

Time Period Covered

2021

Collection Dates

2021-06 – 2021-10

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Organization/Institution

Individual

Universe

Employer organisations in Finland

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Availability

The survey for employers was sent to those organisations in the Lapland, Pirkanmaa and South Savo regions that had posted a job offer for a part-time job on the te-palvelut.fi website between 1 January 2020 and 31 May 2021. The survey was sent to a total of 1,778 employers, but due to a low response rate the survey was circulated again, first through the Chambers of Commerce of South Savo, Lapland and Tampere and then through all Chambers of Commerce in Finland. Some of the Chambers of Commerce forwarded the invitation through their email lists and some posted the invitation on their websites.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Unstructured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

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

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

1.0

Related Datasets

FSD3686 Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Job Seekers 2021

FSD3688 Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Experts in TE Offices and Local Government 2021

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

Mäkinen, Niklas (Tampere University) & Ojala, Satu (Tampere University): Public Employment and Business Services in Finland: Survey for Employers 2021 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2023-03-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3687

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

Kauhanen, M., Ojala, S., Mäkinen, N., Kyyrä, T. & Pesola, H. (2022). Palvelujärjestelmän toiminta: osa-aikatyö, tilapäinen työ ja siirtymät kokoaikatyöhön. Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja 2022:25.

Related Publications

Kauhanen, M., Ojala, S., Mäkinen, N., Kyyrä, T. ja Pesola, H. (2022), Palvelujärjestelmän toiminta: osa-aikatyö, tilapäinen työ ja siirtymät kokoaikatyöhön. Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja 2022:25. Valtioneuvoston kanslia. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-383-032-5