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Summary information

Study title

Finnish Working Life Barometer 2009

Creator

Ministry of Employment and the Economy
Statistics Finland

Study number / PID

FSD2648 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2648 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2648 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish Working Life Barometers

Finnish Working Life Barometers are annual surveys investigating employee opinions on changes in working life in Finland. The survey series was launched in 1992 and is conducted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Many questions and themes have remained the same over the years. Main themes include employment, economy, staff numbers, autonomy, organisation and flexibility of work, and psychosocial work environment. Data are collected in connection with the Labour Force Surveys of Statistics Finland.

Abstract

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes were psychosocial working environment, job characteristics, pay systems, satisfaction with the job, employment security, training and development, capacity to work, and bullying and discrimination at work. The year 2009 study contained new questions on cooperation negotiations. First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, type of contract, number of persons at the workplace, and what kind of changes there had been in staff numbers, working hours, contracts, and tasks during the past 12 months, and whether people had been or transferred to other units. A number of questions pertained to co-operation negotiations, their process and results. Further questions covered team work, whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Incidents of bullying and violence were charted. Next set of questions investigated the respondent's autonomy at work and other job characteristics, overtime and its compensation, flexible working time arrangements, and R's membership in a trade union or professional association. Changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training etc were explored as well as pay and bonus systems, and satisfaction with pay. Psychosocial working environment was charted with a number of questions, for instance, whether employees were treated equally, was there support for trying new things and so on. One topic pertained to whether the respondents had presented any ideas to improve working conditions, products, services or working methods at the workplace and whether there had been other development initiatives. The respondents' participation in job-related training and development was investigated. One theme pertained to job satisfaction. The respondents were...
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Topics

Social sciencesSocial behaviour and attitudesEquality, inequality and social exclusionEmploymentLabour relations/conflictWorking conditionsOccupational health

Keywords

Autonomy at workDiscriminationEmployeesEmployment contractsJob characteristicsJob satisfactionJob securityOccupational trainingPersonnel policyPersonnel managementWagesWorking conditions
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Methodology

Data collection period

07/09/2009 - 08/10/2009

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish-speaking employees aged 18-64 who worked at least 10 hours a week

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Telephone interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2011

Terms of data access

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

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