FSD2502 Public Safety Survey 2009
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State Provincial Offices of Mainland Finland. Police Departments
Other Identification/Acknowlegements
Suominen, Petteri (State Provincial Office of Southern Finland. Police Department)
Abstract
The survey charted Finnish opinion and experiences on policing, public safety and security, victimisation, and services in the neighbourhood. First, the respondents were asked whether certain phenomena (e.g. deviant behaviour of youth, general lack of cleanliness in public places, drinking in public places, vandalism) occurred in their neighbourhood.
They were asked how often they walk outside in the population centre of their municipality in the evenings or at night, how safe they felt walking outside in their neighbourhood or in the population centre of the municipality late at night during weekend, and how safe they felt alone at home after dark. Views were probed on how serious a threat crime was in the neighbourhood. Experience of crime was investigated by asking whether the respondents had been victims of certain crimes (e.g. actual or attempted car or vehicle theft, housebreaking, other type of theft, violent robbery, threat of violence at work, domestic violence, rape) during the past three years, and where this had happened. Fear of crime was charted by asking how worried the respondents were about particular crimes (e.g. housebreaking, fire, traffic accident, rape or sexual harassment, being offered drugs, being threatened with violence) happening to them.
Experiences of the police were studied by asking whether the respondents had had contact with the police as crime victims, witnesses or suspects, while getting a driving licence or a new passport, or during traffic control. The respondents rated with a scale of 4-10 how well the police performed in its tasks (crime prevention, traffic control, handling domestic violence situations, solving crimes, etc.). They also rated how important various police services and tasks were. Worries over certain things happening to them or in general in the future (e.g. loneliness, financial difficulties, illness, cuts in health or police services, exclusion, international terrorism) was charted. Views on whether certain measures would increase the safety of the neighbourhood were studied. The respondents rated municipal services, including care of persons with drug or alcohol problems, child care, youth services, road maintenance, environmental protection, etc. General trust in people and satisfaction with the neighbourhood were also charted.
Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, education, employment status, type of accommodation, housing tenure, type of neighbourhood, number of children aged under 18 living at home, jurisdictional district, and province and region of residence.
Keywords
crime; crime victims; fear of crime; neighbourhoods; police services; safety and security; trust
Topic Classification
administrative sciences; criminology; local government studies; regional studies; science of law; sociology (FSD Topics Classification)
crime; law enforcement (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Restrictions
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes. FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Itella Suomi
Data Producer
State Provincial Offices of Mainland Finland. Police Departments
Collection Date
April 2009 - May 2009
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Individual
Universe
Persons aged 15-74 living in Finland (excluding the Åland Islands)
Sampling Procedure
Simple random sampling
A sample of 112,534 persons was randomly drawn from the Population Information System of Finland's Population Register Centre. Altogether 46,139 persons responded, of whom 15.3% via the Internet.
Collection Mode
Postal survey and Internet survey
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
41%
Time Method
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Data version
1.0 (5.1.2010)
Other Material
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish
Related Studies
FSD2008 Public Safety Survey 2003
FSD2232 Public Safety Survey 2006
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
Public Safety Survey 2009 [computer file]. FSD2502, version 1.0 (2010-01-05). Helsinki: Itella Information [data collcetion], 2009. State Provincial Offices of Mainland Finland. Police Departments [producers].Tampere: Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2010.
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
Kuussaari, Kristiina & Pietikäinen, Minna & Puhakka, Tiina (2010). Nuoret ja aikuiset tilastojen ja kyselytutkimusten valossa. Teoksessa Ohipuhuttu nuoruus? Nuorten elinolot -vuosikirja (toim. Anu-Hanna Anttila, Kristiina Kuussaari & Tiina Puhakka), 16-58. Helsinki: Nuorisotutkimusverkosto/Nuorisotutkimusseura, Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos THL & Valtion nuorisoasiain neuvottelukunta Nuora.
Suominen, Petteri (2009). Turvallinen Suomi 2009: tutkimus suomalaisten turvallisuuskäsityksistä. Helsinki: Sisäasiainministeriö. Poliisiosasto. Poliisin ylijohdon julkaisusarja; 7/2009.
