Data on Working Life
International survey series | Finnsh survey series | Bullying at work | Gender equality in working life | Working conditions in different occupations | Municipal sector | Individual datasets | Search FSD database | Links related to working life
Many datasets archived at the FSD are applicable to studying work and working life, and the purpose of this web page is to present some of them. There are some datasets concentrating exclusively on working life and several datasets where the topic is touched upon in relation to another theme. The data presented cover a wide range of issues such as working conditions, unemployment, work-life balance, gender equality, correspondence between work and education, and changes in working life.
All quantitative datasets archived at the FSD have study descriptions in English. More detailed information on the variables of each dataset can be found in the codebooks attached to each survey. However, there are codebooks in English only for those datasets which have already been translated into English. More datasets are translated on request.
The data archived at the FSD are freely available for research and teaching purposes. More information on how to order data.
International survey series
International Social Survey Programme
(ISSP)
currently involves 40+ countries. Working conditions and attitudes towards work were charted in 2005,
whereas in 2002 the survey focused on work, family, and housework. The data collected from Finns are also
available as separate datasets:
» FSD2133 ISSP 2005
: Work Orientations III : Finnish Data
» FSD0119 ISSP 2002 : Family and Changing Gender
Roles III : Finnish Data
European Social Survey (ESS)
is a biennial multi-country survey series which collects comparable data from over 20 nations. The 2006
survey includes several questions on working life.
» FSD2342 European Social Survey 2006 : Finnish Data
Eurobarometers chart the EU citizens' social and political attitudes. The surveys have included topics related to working life in several years. Please see GESIS website for more information.
Flash Eurobarometers are small scale surveys that supplement standard Eurobarometers. Entrepreneurship has been one of the themes in the survey series since 2000. The respondents' opinions have been charted on entrepreneurship, its risks, and willingness to become an entrepreneur. Please see GESIS website for further information.
World Values Survey (WVS)
series charts citizen activities and social values and attitudes with integrated, structured surveys.
WVS data have been collected in five waves since 1981, and Finland has participated in the data collection
from the very beginning. The surveys have charted the importance of various aspects of life, such as family,
work and leisure in a diverse manner. See for example:
» FSD2118 World Values Survey 2005 : Finnish Data
Finnish survey series
Register Data on Vacancies Notified to Public Employment Service contains information on open vacancies, employers, and the process of filling the vacancies. The Ministry of Employment and the Economy produces a new dataset each spring.
EVA Surveys on Finnish Values and Attitudes are biennial surveys studying changes in Finnish social attitudes and values. The surveys have been conducted since 1984, and the data in the series contain questions for example on entrepreneurship and working life.
Employment Surveys of Tampere University Graduates have since 1994 annually monitored the employment situation of those recently graduated. The respondents have for example told which factors have hindered or prevented them from finding a job, and which factors have been most important in obtaining a job commensurate with their qualifications.
Finnish Youth Surveys include variables related to young people and working life. Employment questions have been widely studied for instance in the 2007 survey: FSD2293 Finnish Youth Survey 2007.
Bullying and violence at work
» FSD2502 Public Safety Survey 2009
» FSD2513 Working Conditions in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 2009
» FSD2411 Working Conditions in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 2007
» FSD2560 School Well-being Profile 2009-2010: Personnel
» FSD2425 School Well-being Profile 2008-2009: Personnel
» FSD2370 School Well-being Profile 2007-2008: Personnel
Gender equality in working life
» FSD2461 Finnish Female Student Interviews 2008-2009 is a comparative analysis on young adults' social and economic situation in Finland and in France. The interviews are in English.
» FSD1113 Paid and Unpaid Work in Families 1998 studied the division of paid and unpaid work in families as well as problems and opinions related to work-life balance.
» FSD2043 Women in Rural Finland 1993 studied women of different ages and charted their life, status, and work in different types of rural areas. The survey was conducted with approximately 1,300 randomly sampled women living in sparsely populated areas or in small rural communities.
» FSD1217 Gender, Education and Career Choice: Data
1983-1991 and FSD1218 Gender, Education and Career
Choice: Follow-up Study 1994
surveyed the career planning of young people and their transition
to education and working life. One of the purposes of the 1983 survey was to find out how often boys and
girls deviated from gendered (sex-stereotyping) career choices and aimed at non-traditional, sex-atypical
occupations. In 1987, 1991, and 1994, the same young people were presented with questions about their
employment situation and life in general.
Working conditions in different occupations
» FSD2513 Working Conditions in the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Finland 2009
» FSD2411 Working Conditions in the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Finland 2007
» FSD2361 Finnish Journalists in Changing Media: Journalist Survey 2007
» FSD2332 Association of Kindergarten Teachers Membership
Survey 1999 probed kindergarten teachers' views on their job, employer, nature and duration of
employment contract, workload, pace of work, and salary. In addition, opinions were charted on the tasks and
activities of the trade union.
FSD1294 Industrial Relations, Trust and Local Bargaining
1999
surveyed working life in 21 different workplaces. Local
bargaining, workplace climate, labour relations, workplace relations, and changes in working life were studied.
» FSD1214 Finnish Teacher Victimisation 1997
charted anti-social behaviour and violence against lower secondary school teachers.
» FSD1141 Shipyard Employee Survey 1992
surveyed the working
conditions of the employees of two Finnish shipyards and attitudes towards strikes and trade union activities.
Municipal sector
The Finnish Local Government 2004 research programme is a joint project of the Association of Finnish Local
and Regional Authorities, universities, and research centres. The project engages in a systematic and
comparable analysis of the development of the municipal sector in 1995-2004. The quality of working
conditions in municipal working communities has been charted in three years:
» FSD1315 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Municipalities as
Working Communities 2003
» FSD1230 Finnish
Local Government 2004 : Municipalities as Working Communities 1999
» FSD1193 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Municipalities as
Working Communities 1995
» FSD1274 Fixed-Term and Subsidised Employees in Finnish
Municipalities 2002 and FSD1273 Fixed-Term and
Subsidised Employees in Finnish Municipalities 1998
studied the status, working conditions,
welfare, and health of non-permanent employees in Finnish municipalities.
Individual datasets
» FSD2516 Temporary Agency Work in Health Care 2006
» FSD2543 Working Time Bank 2004
» FSD1139 Change in Occupational Structure and Social Status
in Finland 1988
» FSD1045 Change in Occupational Structure and Social Status in Finland 1994
» FSD1046 Social Change in Baltic Countries 1993
» FSD1177 Information Society, Information Work and Changes
in the Occupational Structure 2000
Search FSD database
The surveys listed on this page are only a small sample of all data related to working life archived at the FSD. It is therefore worthwhile to search the FSD's data catalogue, also by keywords. See also the search instructions.
Links related to working Life
» Finnish Institute of Occupational Health conducts multidisciplinary and mainly applied research on working conditions, employees' health, and work communities.
» Finnish Work Environment Fund and its Database of Research and Development Projects financed by the Fund
» Work Research Centre (WRC) at the University of Tampere
» TSE Entre at the University of Turku
» The Finnish Association of Work Life Research (FAWORE)
» Ministry of Employment and the Economy compiles statistics and provides various publications online.
» Labour market statistics of the Statistics Finland provide information for instance on employment, unemployment, and working conditions.
» The FSD also provides data from other archives for free to researchers affiliated with a Finnish university or research organisation. For instance, it is possible to order data from ICPSR or from other European data archives.
» European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) operating within the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) collects and produces data on working conditions and labour market in different EU member states. European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) data are available from ESDS.
» International Labour Organization provides data via the LABORSTA online service.
» German Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency offers statistics and data on German labour market.
» The statistics databases of Eurostat provide access to Eurostat's statistics and all its publications. In Finland, the Library of Statistics provides support to independent information search.
