Three institutions co-operate in the ISSP surveys in Finland: Department of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Tampere, Statistics Finland and Finnish Social Science Data Archive.
The department has three disciplines: sociology, social psychology and social anthropology. Many ongoing sociological research projects at the department analyse Finnish society and other European societies from a comparative perspective. Major comparative projects have dealt, for example, with social transformation in post-socialist countries. Other research topics concern issues like information society, family and everyday life, leisure time and working life. The department is also strongly engaged in developing research methods and strategies for the social sciences.
Contact Persons:
Department of Sociology and Social Psychology
FIN-33014
University of Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358 3 215 6566/7019 - Fax: +358 3 215 6080
Statistics Finland employs almost 200 trained interviewers whose fieldwork is co-ordinated and managed by the Interview Services Unit. The professional interviewers collect data with modern IT equipment and software from around the country by conducting interviews either by telephone or in person. Apart from its own regular surveys, Statistics Finland also conducts interview surveys for outside clients, including government ministries, other government bodies, universities and research institutes. Statistics Finland has access to a large number of administrative registers for sampling. The sample frame used for surveys of the population is the updated central population register, from which random samples are taken.
Contact Person: Eero Tanskanen
Survey Research Unit
FIN-00022
Statistics Finland
FINLAND
Tel: +358 9 1734 2549 - Fax: +358 9 1734 3562
The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for social science research and teaching. It started to operate in the beginning of 1999, and it is a separate unit at the University of Tampere. FSD provides a wide range of services from data archiving to information services. FSD's main task is to increase the use of existing data in the social sciences by disseminating data throughout Finland and also internationally. The unit is funded by the Ministry of Education. FSD is a CESSDA member.
Contact Person: Sami Borg
FSD Finnish Social Science Data Archive
FIN-33014
University of Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358 3 215 8519 - Fax: +358 3 215 8520