FSD2297 Trust in Government Ministries 2000
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Harisalo, Risto (University of Tampere. Department of Management and Public Law)
Stenvall, Jari (University of Tampere. Department of Management and Public Law)
Abstract
The survey charted the respondents' trust in various government ministries and their opinions on the actions of the ministries.
The respondents were asked how actively they followed or how interested they were in various issues, such as local government policy, state policy, the actions of the ministries, and civic activity. They were also asked how familiar they thought they were with the actions of the given ministries. Some questions pertained to trust. The respondents assessed how much they trusted different government ministries and various social institutions (e.g. Parliament, the church, the media, the police, the European Union).
Views were probed on the importance and influentiality of various government ministries. The respondents were presented with a set of attitudinal statements pertaining to the policies of the ministries. Opinions were also charted on how well different values (e.g. impartiality, expertise, fairness, incorruptibility) are realised in the actions of the ministries.
Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, education, occupational group, and size of municipality of residence.
Keywords
administrative structures; administrators; authority; central government; government ministers; institutions; policy; politics; trust; values
Topic Classification
administrative sciences; organisation studies (FSD Topics Classification)
government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Restrictions
Responses to open-ended question bv10 are not included in the data.
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes. FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
University of Tampere. Department of Management and Public Law
Data Producer
Ministry of Finance
Collection Date
December 2000 - February 2001
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Individual
Universe
People aged 18-70 living in Finland (excluding the Åland Islands)
Sampling Procedure
Simple random sampling. Sample size 2,000.
The first round yielded 484 responses. After the second round, the total number of responses was 783.
Collection Mode
Postal survey
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
39%
Time Method
Cross-sectional study
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Data version
1.0 (13.12.2007)
Other Material
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish
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
Harisalo, Risto & Stenvall, Jari: Trust in Government Ministries 2000 [computer file]. FSD2297, version 1.0 (2007-12-13). Helsinki: Ministry of Finance [producer]. 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
Harisalo, Risto & Stenvall, Jari (2001). Luottamus kansalaisyhteiskunnan peruskivenä. Kansalaisten luottamus ministeriöihin. Valtion keskushallinnon uudistaminen. Helsinki: Valtiovarainministeriö.
