Summary information

Study title

Euro Student 2000: Finland

Creator

Lempinen, Petri (Student Research Foundation (Otus))
Tiilikainen, Anna (Student Research Foundation (Otus))

Study number / PID

FSD1117 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1117 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1117 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Eurostudent: Finnish Data

The Eurostudent project collates comparable data on the circumstances of students across Europe. The surveys chart the living conditions and studies of students in higher education as well as their international mobility. The project started in the 1990s and surveys have been carried out roughly every three years.

Abstract

The survey is the Finnish contribution to the international Euro Student Report survey. Topics in the survey dealt with the students' housing, studies, economic situation and how they experience it, gainful employment, studying abroad, and the socio-economic position of the students' parents. The respondents were asked what examination they were going to take next, how many years they had studied in a university, how many years they estimated their studies would take, and what their field of studies was. With regard to living conditions, the respondents were asked where they lived during the academic year, how far their apartments were from their place of study, how much money a month they had at their disposal, whether they received financial assistance from their parents, and what their economic situation had been during the last six months. In addition, the respondents were asked to estimate their material well-being, the strenuousness of studies, balancing study and work, and their weekly use of time. Concerning internationality, the respondents were asked about their language skills and whether they had ever been or studied abroad. Those who had studied abroad were asked about the nature, duration and financing of their studies, in which phase of them they studied abroad, and through which programme this took place. Background variables included the respondent's age, sex, marital status, number of children, citizenship, educational background as well as the education, profession, and income of parents.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/03/2000 - 01/05/2000

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Students in all Finnish universities and polytechnics

Sampling procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2001

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

  • Lempinen, Petri & Tiilikainen, Anna (2001). Opiskelijatutkimus 2000. Helsinki: Opiskelijajärjestöjen tutkimussäätiö Otus rs. Työpapereita; 21/2001.