Summary information
Study title
Gerontological Social Work 2000: Interviews
Creator
Salonen, Kari (Turku University of Applied Sciences. Faculty of Well-being Services. Degree Programme of Social Services)
Study number / PID
FSD2387 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2387 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2387 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
In the study, Finnish social workers working with the elderly were interviewed about their work, its significance, ways of improving it and its future. The data consist of 13 transcribed interviews in Finnish. The respondents were asked about their their typical working day, job tasks and content, professional and personal equirements for the work, changes in the requirements overr the last 5-10 years, role of social workers in elderly care, development needs relating to work, and expectations for the future. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
29/09/2001 - 01/12/2001
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
13 social workers, 8 of whom worked in retirement homes
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Interview
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2009
Terms of data access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Related publications
- Salonen, Kari (2002). Vanhussosiaalityö Ammattina. Tutkimus vanhussosiaalityöntekijöiden ammattitaidosta, työkokonaisuuksista, tiedoista, taidoista, ammatillisista kvalifikaatioista, kompetenssista sekä toiminnallisista ympäristöistä. Turun ammattikorkeakoulun tutkimuksia 2. Turku: Turun ammattikorkeakoulu.