Summary information

Study title

Finnish University Graduates of Year 2000: Career and Employment Survey 2005

Creator

Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in Finland

Study number / PID

FSD2351 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2351 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2351 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Career and Employment Survey of Finnish University Graduates

The survey series consists of career follow-up studies of multidisciplinary Finnish universities. Each survey charts the career and employment situation of people with Bachelor's or Master's degrees five years after their graduation. Respondents are asked about their work history, current employment situation and satisfaction with their academic degree. The number of universities participating in the survey each year may vary. The surveys are conducted as part of national cooperation between Finnish universities and collected by the Aarresaari network of the Academic Career Services in...

Abstract

The survey charted the career and employment situation of Bachelors and Masters who graduated from Finnish universities in 2000. The survey was conducted five years after the respondents' graduation, and it charted the stability of the first years of their careers, and whether their job was commensurate with their qualifications. The respondents' work history was charted by asking them whether they had earned other degrees or participated in in-service or specialised training related to their job or occupation after the degree earned in 2000. The time spent in paid employment after graduation was queried, including both work in general and work commensurate with their qualifications. The number of employers and separate employments and offices was charted, as well as whether the respondents had been entrepreneurs, self-employed or freelancers and how long, and whether they had been outside the labour market because of family leave. Possible periods of unemployment were also canvassed. The respondents were presented with potential obstacles to getting a job (e.g. lack of experience, weak labour market situation in the field, gender) and asked to assess how much each of them had hindered their employment. The respondents' current employment situation, type of main employer, and type of work were charted. They were also asked where they had received information about their current job. The respondents' monthly gross income was queried, as well as how well it corresponded with the contents and level of responsibility of their job and with their academic education. They were also presented with a set of attitudinal statements on whether they liked their job. The respondents who were in temporary employment were asked to tell the most important reason for the temporary nature of the contract, the duration of the contract, and whether the contract was preceded by another temporary contract with the same employer. Correspondence between work and education was studied by...

Social sciencesEmploymentHigher and further education

Appointment to jobCareerEducational certificatesEmployment opportunitiesGraduatesLabour forceTemporary employmentTertiary educationHigher education institutions

Data collection period

09/2005 - 10/2005

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Persons graduated with a lower (B.A.) or higher (M.A.) degree from the universities of Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Lappi, Oulu, Tampere, Turku, and Åbo Akademi in 2000

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

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

2010

Terms of data access

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

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