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Study title

Poverty and Welfare Survey 1995

Creator

Kangas, Olli (University of Turku. Department of Social Policy) - 0000-0002-7343-6337
Ritakallio, Veli-Matti (University of Turku. Department of Social Policy) - 0000-0003-1237-0896

Study number / PID

FSD1219 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1219 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1219 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Poverty and Welfare Surveys

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...

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Abstract

First topic covered by the survey was housing: characteristics of the respondents' accommodation (size, number of rooms), housing costs, owner-occupied or rented, satisfaction with various aspects (e.g. neighbourhood, public transport). Respondents were asked about their education, occupation, own and spouses' employment situation, experiences of unemployment, unemployment benefits received and standard of living in their childhood home. Present standard of living and changes in it over time were queried. Some questions were asked about which items and services the respondents regarded as necessary for present-day Finnish adults or for respondents themselves (e.g. domestic appliances, car, clothing, newspaper, adequate diet and housing, nights out, hobbies, holidays, celebrations and presents, social activities, meeting the costs of public transport, health care, mobile phone, PC, insurance). Opinions on necessities for families with children were queried (toys, leisure equipment, social and leisure activities, closeness of play ground, own bedroom for each child) and whether these should be covered with social security. Respondents were then asked whether they themselves could afford the above mentioned items and services. Respondents' financial situation was examined by asking whether they had had problems paying their bills, had borrowed money from others, could raise extra money if needed, had been able to buy things they wanted or had recently made major purchases (e.g. car, house or boat). Opinions on minimum income for their own family, for one adult or for two-children two-adults families were surveyed. The survey also carried attitudinal questions about poverty, social security and people in need of social security benefits. Experiences of poverty were studied by asking whether respondents or a family member would be entitled to subsistence subsidy/maintenance grant or had ever received it. Household monthly income, monthly costs and loans (including...
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Topics

Social sciencesSpecific social services: use and availabilitySocial welfare policy

Keywords

HousingEmploymentBasic needsSocial security benefitsIncome supportStandard of livingConsumer goodsConsumptionHousehold budgetsDomestic appliancesLoansPoverty

Methodology

Data collection period

12/1994 - 1995

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual
Household

Universe

Finnish adults aged 18-70 living in Finland

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

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