Summary information

Study title

Finnish Local Government Barometer 1996: Municipal Managers, Chairmen of Municipal Executive Boards

Creator

Foundation for Municipal Development

Study number / PID

FSD1121 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1121 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1121 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish Local Government Barometers

The Foundation for Municipal Development conducts annual surveys covering opinions on local (municipal) democracy, local government, local economy and services. Respondents are generally local inhabitants, municipal managers and the chairpersons of municipal boards. The data enable comparison between the opinions of the inhabitants on the one hand, and the managers and chairpersons on the other. The surveys also study municipal managers' views on the policies of the Government of Finland and the functionality of local co-operation. The survey series was launched in 1992. The FSD collections...

Abstract

Chairpersons of municipal executive boards and municipal managers were asked about the correlation between local tax rate and the standard of municipal services. The respondents evaluated whether there was any need to cut services, and if so, which services. They were also asked whether municipalities should be responsible for financing job creation schemes and employing people through these schemes. Opinions on the functionality of information exchange between government bodies and municipalities were canvassed. The usefulness of certain national and regional bodies (e.g. various ministries and other governmental bodies, universities) to the respondents' municipality was studied. The respondents also evaluated the characteristics and activities of regional councils and their leaders. Background variables included the respondents' sex, status in municipal administration, municipality size, region, and province.

Social sciencesElites and leadershipGovernment, political systems and organisations

Local financePublic sectorLocal taxationEmployment programmesMunicipalitiesMunicipal governmentLocal governmentPublic services

Data collection period

27/05/1996 - 02/07/1996

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Managers of Finnish municipalities and chairpersons of municipal executive boards

Excludes: Swedish-speaking municipalities

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

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

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