The Working Finland study provides data that is based on an extensive survey on the working conditions and state of well-being at work of the working population aged 20-67 living in Finland. The Working Finland study was implemented by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health as part of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare's Healthy Finland Survey.
DESCRIPTION
More than 7,000 working people participated in the Working Finland study. The Healthy Finland Survey was sent to a random population register sample of working-age people aged 20 or over. The survey was carried out in 2022-2023.
Working conditions and the state of well-being at work were measured with a number of indicators previously used and validated in studies. The indicators addressed, among other things, physical and psychosocial stress factors of work, work engagement, recovery from work and work ability.
WHAT THE INDICATORS DESCRIBE
The indicators describe a variety of different factors affecting working conditions and the state of well-being at work.
Variables included in the factors affecting working conditions: unpredictable changes in work, remote work, physical strain, threat of physical violence, threat of psychological violence, information overload, management of one's own work, overlapping work tasks, decision-making power, threat of sexual harassment, availability outside working time, forms of working hours, work-related thoughts during leisure time, work-life interaction and meaningfulness of work.
Well-being at work and occupational health care include: experience of customer-orientedness in occupational health care, occupational health care appointment type, ability to continue working until retirement age, work engagement, recovery from work and occupational burnout.
The indicators can be used to compare results by gender, age, socio-economic status and sector.
The dataset consists of the results of the Healthy Finland Survey. It is not updated annually.
