FSD2662 Finnish Working Life Barometer 2000
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Ministry of Labour
Statistics Finland
Abstract
The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes were job characteristics, work environment, conflicts at the workplace, influence over decisions, working hours, wages, employment security and equality. The year 2000 survey contained new questions on discrimination, capacity to work, and immigrant co-workers.
First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, type of contract, number of persons at the workplace, what kind of changes there had been in staff numbers, working hours, contracts and organisational structure over the past 12 months, and whether people had been transferred to other units. Further questions covered team work, and whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Staff qualifications and requirements, employee influence over, for instance, workload and tasks, and changes in the degree of influence were investigated as well as trade union influence and R's membership in a trade union or a professional association.
Next set of questions covered overtime at work, overtime compensation, and changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training etc. Wage level and pay systems were charted. One topic pertained to whether the respondents had presented any ideas to improve working conditions, products, services or working methods at the workplace and whether there had been other development initiatives. They were asked how likely it was that they would be dismissed or laid off, or their tasks or working hours would be changed over the next year.
Opinions were charted on employment situation in Finland and what kind of changes were happening in working life in, for instance, relating to management style, possibility to influence decisions, the financial situation of their organisation. A number of questions investigated how the employees' capacity to work and occupational health and safety had been taken into account at the workplace, the respondents' sickness absences, and estimate of own mental and physical capacity to work. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age or gender was explored as well as experiences of immigrant co-workers. Finally, the respondents were asked whether they had done work from home or somewhere else outside of workplace (telework).
Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, degree of urbanisation of the municipality of residence, region, occupational group, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, and basic and vocational education. Most background variables were obtained from the Labour Force Survey 2000 telephone interviews.
Keywords
autonomy at work; discrimination; employees; job characteristics; job security; job security; personnel management; personnel policy; telework; wages; working conditions; workloads
Topic Classification
sociology of work; welfare studies (FSD Topics Classification)
employment; equality and inequality; labour relations/conflict; social behaviour and attitudes; working conditions (CESSDA Topics Classification)
Series Name
Finnish Working Life Barometers
Restrictions
Variable k29b has been removed due to unknown coding.
Access to the data granted for scientific and teaching purposes. FSD's access application procedure.
Data Collector
Statistics Finland
Collection Date
September 2000 - October 2000
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis Unit
Individual
Universe
Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who worked at least 10 hours a week
Sampling Procedure
Simple random sample from the population register. For its Labour Force Survey 2000, Statistics Finland drew a random sample of people aged between 15 - 74 and living in Finland. From the Labour Force Survey sample, Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who had responded being employed for at least 10 hours a week were selected for the Working Life Barometer.
Collection Mode
Telephone interview: CATI
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
87,3%
Time Method
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Data Source
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Labour force survey 2000. Helsinki: Statistics Finland.
Collection Size
Data: SPSS portable file. Data available also in other file formats.
Number of cases and variables
1166 cases and 122 variables
Data version
2.0 (25.2.2013)
Other Material
See downloadable files at the top of the page
Questionnaire: pdf file in Finnish
Related Studies
FSD2745 Finnish Municipal Working Life Barometer: Local Government Employees 2000
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
Finnish Working Life Barometer 2000 [computer file]. FSD2662, version 2.0 (2013-02-25). Helsinki: Ministry of Labour & Helsinki: Statistics Finland [producers], 2000. Tampere: Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor], 2013.
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
Kunta-alan työolobarometri 2000. Työministeriön työolobarometrin 2000 kuntatyöpaikkojen osatarkastelu (2001). Helsinki: Työturvallisuuskeskus, kuntaryhmä.
Ylöstalo, Pekka (2001). Työolobarometri. Lokakuu 2000. Helsinki: Työministeriö. Työpoliittinen tutkimus; 228.
