Municipal work and employee well-being

The Kunta10 study aims to determine the changes taking place in the work of staff in the municipal sector as well as their impact on the health and well-being of the staff. The results present development trends related to work, work communities, leadership and coping at work in the municipal sector.

Description

The Kunta10 study by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is the country's largest and longest-running research focused on municipal sector personnel. The study is conducted every two years and includes 11 cities. The social and health care reform that came into effect at the beginning of 2023 significantly changed the personnel structure of municipalities, as employees in the social, health, and rescue sectors, except in Helsinki, moved to the service of well-being regions. The number of people targeted by the survey was over 90,000 employees from 2016 to 2024 before the reform, and even after the reform, it is still over 76,000 employees. The survey response rate has varied between 62% and 72%. The results of the study are used in municipalities to develop staff well-being and working life. The research data is widely utilized in scientific research, which examines, among other things, the effects of working conditions and changes in work on employees' health and well-being, as well as the mechanisms affecting these connections.

What the indicators describe

The data is from 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024, and it includes information on 52071 to 65179 respondents presented as annual cross-sections. The responses have been divided into categories based on a variety of criteria (e.g. gender and supervisory position). You can change the criteria used for classifying the results using the buttons at the top of the page. The data has been coarsened so that no individual respondents can be identified. Even the smallest groups include at least 200 people.

The point value for each question is either the value for an individual question/statement or the average of several questions that assess the same issue from several slightly different perspectives (sum variable). In addition, the questions employ a variety of different scales:

• Scale of 1–5, where a higher figure indicates more of what the question refers to. However, the original scale for the statement ‘Feels work is meaningful’ is 1–7. In order to be able to present this statement together with the others, its scale was transformed using the following formula: 4*(x-1)/6 + 1.
• A relative scale of 0–100, where the figure represents the share of respondents to whom the statement fits (percentage).

Each graph only includes the results of similar questions.

The data is updated every two years.