FSD4047 Early Childhood Education and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic Survey 2020-2021

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Early Childhood Education and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic Survey 2020-2021

Aineistonumero

FSD4047

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD4047
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd4047

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Tekijät

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey examined the circumstances of families in Finland with five-year-old children regarding arrangements for early childhood education and childcare, health and development, and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guardians were asked about these themes at three time points: at the time of response (November 2020-January 2021), during the COVID-19 state of emergency in spring 2020, and in January 2020 prior to the state of emergency. The information for all three time points was collected retrospectively in a single survey.

First, respondents were asked about their five-year-old child's childcare and early childhood education arrangements at different time points, their satisfaction with these arrangements, any changes that occurred, and the reasons for those changes. In addition, respondents were asked about their employment situation and changes during the state of emergency due to COVID-19, such as changes of workplace, working hours, and the increase in remote work.

Next, respondents were asked about their own and their child's health, as well as their use of services intended for families. They were also asked about work-family balance, the division of labor between spouses, and parenting. Finally, respondents were asked about their views on the COVID-19 pandemic and early childhood education measures during the pandemic.

Background variables include, among others, the respondent's age group, gender, type of municipality, region of residence, marital status, family composition, and household income, as well as the respondent's and spouse's level of education, economic activity, and employment-related information. Background information on the five-year-old child includes, among others, gender, year of birth, and living arrangements.

Asiasanat

child care; child day care; child development; children; covid-19; early childhood; families; family life; parental role; parents; pre-primary education; well-being (society)

Tieteenala/Aihealue

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

Kerääjät

  • University of Jyväskylä
  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Rahoittajat

  • Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM/481/520/2020)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2020 – 2021

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2020-11-16 – 2021-01-15

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Family

Perusjoukko/otos

All parents and guardians in the municipalities of Joensuu, Kajaani, Kemi, Lappeenranta, Mikkeli, Rovaniemi, Tornio, and Vaasa, as well as half of the parents and guardians in the Turku area who have a child born between October 1, 2014, and September 30, 2015 (excluding multiple-birth parents), as well as all parents who participated in the 2019 Childcare survey and expressed their willingness to participate in the follow-up study.

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Non-probability: Purposive

The study sample consisted of two components. In the first component, municipalities were purposively selected based on the COVID-19 situation in spring 2020, including areas with both low and high numbers of confirmed cases. The selection also aimed to ensure broad geographical coverage across Finland. The municipalities included Joensuu, Kajaani, Kemi, Lappeenranta, Mikkeli, Rovaniemi, Tornio, Turku and Vaasa. All parents and guardians of children born between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015 (approximately five-year-olds) were invited to participate from all selected municipalities except Turku, where a partial systematic random sample was drawn from population register data. Parental contact details were obtained from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency in October 2020. Due to system limitations, data were not available for parents living at a different address than their child. This first component included 7,227 parents representing 4,261 children.

The second component consisted of respondents from the 2019 CHILDCARE survey, which targeted parents of children born during the same period. Parents who had consented to follow-up contact were invited to participate (N = 1,609, 1,286 children). Updated contact information was retrieved from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency in October 2020.

In total, 8,836 parents (5,648 children) were invited to participate. The survey was conducted between November 2020 and January 2021 as an online survey (Webropol) in Finnish, Swedish and English, with a paper questionnaire available in Finnish. Two reminders were sent, the latter including a paper questionnaire. A total of 1,850 parents (1,603 children) responded, yielding a response rate of 20.9% at the parent level and 28.4% at the child level.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

20.9

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Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3578 Early Childhood Education and Care Survey 2019

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Missing data coded as −1 mainly indicates that the respondent did not answer the question at all. Some respondents selected multiple response options for questions where only one option should have been chosen according to the survey instructions. Such responses have been recoded as missing data (−1) in the following variables: k10 battery, k12 battery, k15, k18, k20, k21, k23, k24, k25, k26, k60_1, and k60_2. In addition, in some cases duplicate responses have been handled by retaining the more extreme value, or, if one of the responses was 'not applicable / cannot say,” this value was retained. Missing data coded as 0, in turn, indicates cases where the respondent did not select the given option in that question, or invalid duplicate responses in paper questionnaires that were treated as missing data. Variables with names ending in the letter K (e.g. k33_1K) have been somehow modified by the researcher.

The researcher has planned the anonymisation of the data and recoded the following variables for identifiability reasons: respondent's age (ika_5lk), respondent's marital status (k3_K), the respondent's and their partner's main activity (k10 and k12 variable batteries), childcare arrangements of the 5-year-old (k29 and k38 variable batteries), the early childhood education setting of the 5-year-old (K50_3lk), and the respondent's country of birth (k86_2lk). In addition, the researcher has removed some open-ended variables and recoded some open-ended responses to the response option "Other, please specify" into existing response categories.

To prevent the identification of respondents and in accordance with the researcher's plan, the remaining open-ended responses, as well as the variables describing the spouse's gender (Question 4) and the area of developmental or health challenges of five-year-olds (Question 63), were removed from the data at FSD. In addition, variables relating to the age and number of children have been combined, and the number of children has been top-coded.

The variable battery corresponding to question 66 has been removed from the data at FSD, as the use of the Survey of Children's Individual Differences (SIDCA) instrument is subject to a licence.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

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.

Malliviittaus

Alasuutari, Maarit (University of Jyväskylä) & Sulkanen, Mimmu (University of Jyväskylä) & Räikkönen, Eija (University of Jyväskylä) & Lammi-Taskula, Johanna (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare) & Närvi, Johanna (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare): Early Childhood Education and Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic Survey 2020-2021 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2026-03-19). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd4047; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD4047

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

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

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

Sulkanen, M., Alasuutari, M., Närvi, J., & Lammi-Taskula, J. (2021). Lapsiperheiden hyvinvointi koronapandemian aikana : Osaraportti 1: Aineistonkeruu, metodit ja vastaajat. Jyväskylän yliopisto. JYU Reports, 4. https://doi.org/10.17011/jyureports/2021/4

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Auvinen, J. & Hotakainen, J. (2022). Varhaiskasvatusikäisten lasten vanhempien työn ja perheen yhteensovittaminen koronapandemian aikana. Pro gradu -tutkielma. Jyväskylän yliopisto. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202205202803

Kannel, L., Räikkönen, E., & Alasuutari, M. (2025). Social Competence of 5-year-olds during Societal Crisis. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-01974-z

Moilanen, S., Räikkönen, E., Lammi-Taskula, J., Duvander, A.-Z., & Alasuutari, M. (2024). Do parenthood worries impede the birth of a second child? Differences according to the parent's gender and spousal support in Finland. Journal of Family Research, 36, 103-125. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-968

Pajula, R. (2022). Viisivuotiaiden lasten vanhempien kokemukset hyvinvoinnistaan varhaiskasvatuksen sulkutoimenpiteiden aikana 2020. Pro gradu -tutkielma. Jyväskylän yliopisto. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202205242881

Sulkanen, M., Alasuutari, M., & Saranko, L. (2021). Lapsiperheiden hyvinvointi koronapandemian aikana : Osaraportti 2: Noin viisivuotiaiden hoito- ja varhaiskasvatusjärjestelyt. Jyväskylän yliopisto. JYU Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.17011/jyureports/2021/9

Sulkanen, M., Alasuutari, M., Närvi, J., & Lammi-Taskula, J. (2021). Lapsiperheiden hyvinvointi koronapandemian aikana : Osaraportti 1: Aineistonkeruu, metodit ja vastaajat. Jyväskylän yliopisto. JYU Reports, 4. https://doi.org/10.17011/jyureports/2021/4

Sulkanen, M., Räikkönen, E., & Alasuutari, M. (2022). Kotiin jääneiden lasten huomiointi päiväkodeissa kevään 2020 covid-19-poikkeusolojen aikana. Kasvatus, 53(5), 451-466. https://doi.org/10.33348/kvt.125518

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