The target population consists of employed wage and salary earners aged 18 to 67. The respondents are drawn from the Labour Force Survey rounds of August to December 2023 and January 2024 among the respondents for whom an up-to-date telephone number can be found. The sample of the Labour Force Survey is drawn as a stratified random sample from Statistics Finland’s population database, which is based on the Central Population Register.

Persons drawn to the sample are informed of the coming survey at the end of the telephone interview or online responding to the Labour Force Survey.

Participation is a civil right. Your responses are utilised in research concerning working life, for different working life development programmes and in preparing decisions and legislation concerning us all. All citizens benefit from decisions on working life being based on researched information.

Quality of work life. Statistics on quality of work life describe the change in working conditions of wage and salary earners. They cover physical, psychological and social work environment factors. The data are collected and published around every five years.

No. The respondents have been selected to represent the population of Finland. You have been selected based on your age and area of residence. No one else can replace you. ⁠Your response is needed in order to obtain reliable data for the statistics concerning the population groups you represent.

Your responses are confidential. We never release your responses for administrative decision-making, investigation, surveillance, legal proceedings or similar purposes, such as to the Tax Administration or the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.

We never hand over or sell your contact information outside Statistics Finland.

The contact details of individual respondents are the address, email and telephone number
as well as corresponding information in the names of members of the same household. The data derive from the Population Information System and from those authorities from which data are obtained based on the Statistics Act. In addition, contact details are obtained from public sources, such as telephone operators.

Statistics Finland is also entitled to receive for surveys the contact information of persons who have a ban on direct marketing.

Your responses can be seen at Statistics Finland only by those employees who compile statistics based on the responses. Your data will be treated as strictly confidential and we will ensure your data protection at all stages of the production of the statistics. Every person employed by Statistics Finland has signed a pledge of secrecy.

We publish statistics in the manner that the responses of individual persons cannot be identified from the data.