FSD2166 Finnish Local Government 2004: Child Day Care 1999: Child-Minding
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Kauppi, Ulla (University of Vaasa. Faculty of Public Administration)
Abstract
The survey focused on the scope, service provision, administration and development of child-minding services in Finnish municipalities. These services (also called family day care) offer families child-minding at the home of the minder, at the home of the family or in a group with several minders. The respondents were child-minding coordinators. Similar surveys were carried out in 1997, 1999 and 2003, from the viewpoints of child-minding coordinators, day nursery managers and municipal service directors.
First, the respondents were asked how many children there were within municipal child-minding service, and how the children were divided in terms of the type of day care (e.g. full day care, sessional day care). The number of employees in municipal child-minding service and their tasks were queried, as well as the number of employees hired with the help of employment subsidies. In addition, the capacity and utilisation rate of municipal family day care places were studied.
Further questions covered management and decision-making on child day care in the municipality. Opinions on the use of client surveys were investigated. Finally, the development of child-minding services since 1995, the present state, and development policies for the future were charted.
Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, job title, work experience, level of education, and the location of the job.
Keywords
child day care; child-minders; child-minding; children; community development; day nurseries; local community facilities; local government; local government officers; local government policy; local government services; pre-primary education; pre-primary schools; preschool children; public services; social systems
Topic Classification
local government studies; social welfare policy (FSD Topics Classification)
government, political systems and organisations; specific social services: use and provision (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Series Name
Restrictions
The data do not contain opinions on the survey asked at the end of the questionnaire.
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes. FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Kauppi, Ulla (University of Vaasa. Faculty of Public Administration)
Data Producer
Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities
Collection Date
November 1999 - The early 2000
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Geographic unit (Municipality)
Universe
Finnish municipalities (excluding the Åland Islands)
Sampling Procedure
Two-stage stratified sampling in selecting project municipalities.
The project municipalities were selected separately from those with less than 10,000 inhabitants (28 municipalities) and from those with more than 10,000 inhabitants (19 municipalities). The selection aimed to be representative within both groups in relation to all municipalities with the same population size. Large municipalities were over-represented because 70% of the Finnish population lives in large municipalities. Representativeness criteria included regional location, age and education of the population, industry structure, municipal economy parameters, political situation and variables related to municipal policy. The selected municipalities form a small scale model of all Finnish municipalities. The Åland Islands municipalities were excluded because of special features resulting from Åland's autonomy.
The questionnaire was sent to child-minding coordinators in the selected municipalities. 43 municipalities responded.
Collection Mode
Postal survey
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Time Method
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Data version
1.0 (26.4.2007)
Other Material
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish and Swedish
Related Studies
FSD2161 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 1997 : Service Directors
FSD2162 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 1997 : Day Nurseries
FSD2163 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 1997 : Child-Minding
FSD2164 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 1999 : Service Directors
FSD2165 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 1999 : Day Nurseries
FSD2167 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 2003 : Service Directors
FSD2168 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 2003 : Day Nurseries
FSD2169 Finnish Local Government 2004 : Child Day Care 2003 : Child-Minding
Citation Requirement
The source must be acknowledged in any publication based wholly or in part on the data. The bibliographic citation may be in the form required by the publication, or in the form suggested by the archive.
Bibliographical Citation
Pekola-Sjöblom, Marianne: [computer file]. FSD2166, version 1.0 (2007-04-26). Tampere: Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2007.
Depositing Requirements
The archive must be informed of all publications where the data have been used.
Disclaimer
The depositor and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data.
Related Publications
Kauppi, Ulla (2001). Päivähoitoa täydellä teholla. Helsinki: Suomen Kuntaliitto. KuntaSuomi 2004 -tutkimuksia; 31 & Acta; 140.
