Finnish Local Government Barometer 2001: Inhabitants

The survey studied the public opinion on Finnish municipalities. Views on municipalities as employers were charted by asking the respondents to evaluate the wage level, job variety, holiday entitlement, pension benefits, career opportunities, job security and control, incentives, efficiency, job satisfaction, and general working conditions of municipal employees. Some questions covered management and gender equality in municipalities. The respondents compared municipalities and private sector employers in terms of wages, working conditions, job security, management, etc. Opinions were also probed on whether municipalities should increase their attractiveness as employers by increasing task variety, flexibility of working hours, employees' control over their job, and employees' possibilities to have a say in decisions, etc. The respondents were also asked whether they would accept a job offered by a municipality, state, private industry or a private services provider. The survey carried a set of attitudinal questions relating to local government democracy, municipal administration, municipal services, municipal employees, their workload, municipal taxation, etc. The same questions were presented in another survey targeting young Finns aged 15-25 (FSD2089). Background variables included whether the respondent or a close relative was or had been a municipal employee, the respondent's gender, age, main activity, education, province and region of residence, household annual gross income, household composition, which political party the respondent would vote for if the parliamentary elections were held at that time, and which party (s)he had voted for in the 2000 municipal elections.

本调查旨在探究公众对芬兰地方自治体的看法。通过询问受访者对市政雇员的薪资水平、职业多样性、假期权益、退休福利、职业发展机会、工作保障与控制、激励措施、工作效率、工作满意度和总体工作条件等方面的评价，绘制了自治体作为雇主的形象。部分问题涉及市政管理及性别平等议题。受访者还被要求在薪资、工作条件、工作保障、管理等方面，对自治体与私营部门雇主进行比较。调查还探讨了自治体是否应通过增加任务多样性、工作时间的灵活性、员工对工作的控制以及员工在决策中发表意见的可能性等方式，提升其作为雇主的吸引力。受访者还被询问是否接受由自治体、国家、私营行业或私营服务提供商提供的职位。调查包含一系列与地方政府民主、市政管理、市政服务、市政雇员、他们的工作负担、市政税收等相关态度问题。同样的问题在针对15至25岁年轻芬兰人的另一项调查（FSD2089）中也被提出。背景变量包括受访者或其近亲是否曾是或现在是市政雇员、受访者的性别、年龄、主要活动、教育、居住省份和地区、家庭年度总收入、家庭构成、如果当时举行议会选举，受访者将投票给哪个政党，以及他们在2000年市政选举中投票给了哪个政党等。