Summary information

Study title

ISSP 2011: Health: Finnish Data

Creator

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)

Blom, Raimo (University of Tampere. Department of Social Research)

Melin, Harri (University of Tampere. Department of Social Research) - 0000-0003-3203-9228

Tanskanen, Eero (Statistics Finland. Interview and Survey Services)

Study number / PID

FSD2703 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2703 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2703 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

ISSP (International Social Survey Programme)

ISSP is a continuous programme of cross-national collaboration on social science surveys. It is based on annual, internationally integrated surveys carried out in all participating countries. A self-financed consortium of various research institutions is in charge of the programme. The ISSP data collection started in 1985, and in Finland in 2000, along with the national membership. The GESIS in Germany is responsible for archiving the ISSP data. Country-specific codebooks and questionnaires can be found on the GESIS ISSP web pages. ZACAT, the data portal of the GESIS, offers information on...

Abstract

This study examined opinions on health policy and health services in Finland as well as the respondents' own state of health. Questions relating to health and health services surveyed the respondents' satisfaction with life, trust in the Finnish education and health care systems and wished-for changes in the health care system. The respondents were asked how fair or unfair they thought that people with better income receive better education for their children and better healthcare, the extent to which they agreed with statements relating to health care system and how willing they would be to pay more taxes to improve the health care in Finland. The respondents were asked about public funding of different health measures, who should get treatment and whether there were people without access to medical treatment. Views were probed on the causes of severe health problems, which of two equally sick patients should get treatment first (on the grounds of smoking, age or children), alternative medicine and trust in doctors. The respondents were asked about (mental and physical) symptoms experienced, treatment received, nights spent in hospital as an inpatient, reasons for forgoing medical treatment, and the probability of receiving the best possible treatment and treatment from the doctor of their choice. Satisfaction with the health care system as well as the latest treatment when visiting a doctor, an alternative health care practitioner and a hospital were investigated. Questions covered smoking and drinking habits, exercise and nutrition, perceived status of health, chronic illnesses and conditions, and height and weight. Other questions investigated the respondents' rights to Finnish public health care or occupational health care, whether they had an optional health insurance and how likely they thought it was they would receive free health care when ill. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with some statements (e.g. "science and technology will,...

Medical and health sciencesSocial sciencesHealth care services and policiesSigns and symptoms; pathological conditionsMedication and treatment

Data collection period

28/08/2011 - 09/12/2011

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15-74 living in Finland

Sampling procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2012

Terms of data access

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

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