Description

A postal survey collected every five years since 1995 at the University of Turku Unit of Social Policy. The principal idea of the survey was to replicate surveys that in other countries (for example in England and in Sweden) were constructed to analyze people’s perceptions of poverty, and based on this, analyze the extent of poverty. With the data, it is possible to study people’s perceptions on the necessities of life, deprivation in different dimensions, employment status and employment history, the social status of childhood home, subjective well-being and attitudes towards the welfare state and welfare recipients.