Letters sent to respondents
We have sent the respondents a letter when the inquiry started. Have a look at the letter!
Eurostudent is a student survey aimed to assess the living conditions, learning, mobility, social background and livelihoods of higher education students.
Data are simultaneously collected in more than 20 European countries for the use of higher education policy, higher education institutions and researchers. The EUROSTUDENT inquiry is now made in Finland for the eighth time. So far, the inquiry data have helped gain a comprehensive picture of Finnish students for international comparisons.
A randomly representative sample of Finnish higher education students is drawn from the database of students in higher education. The size of the sample is around 25,000 students.
Among the respondents, we will raffle three 100-euro gift cards for the grocery store.
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If you have been selected to participate in the survey, you can log in to the form with your personal username and password or direct link. To get started, click on the Start responding button below.
Every response improves the reliability of the data we collect. This way we ensure that the inquiry results and compiled statistics are of high quality and give a correct picture of the studied subject.
We have sent the respondents a letter when the inquiry started. Have a look at the letter!
All data collected for statistical purposes are confidential. When processing data, it is seen to that no person's privacy or business or professional secret are endangered. Every person employed by Statistics Finland has signed a pledge of secrecy.
The right to process personal data for research purposes within the Eurostudent survey is based on Finnish law and statutory obligations and a task in public interest as intended in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The Ministry of Education and Culture is the data controller for the processing of personal data.
The contact information of people selected for the inquiry is received from higher education institutions as well as from Statistics Finland’s register based on the Population Information System. For the research material, Statistics Finland supplements the data available from the questionnaire with data available from administrative registers. These include, for example, data on education, age and employment. Statistics Finland's employees are legally obliged to secrecy.
Further information in the survey’s data protection notice (PDF) (The Ministry of Education and Culture).
Statistics Finland releases the anonymised data to the Ministry of Education and Culture and the researchers within the Eurostudent research project. The data may be released for further economic and social research. Released data are always anonymised and the direct identification of the survey participants is impossible. The data formed based on the responses to the inquiry are also archived as anonymised data in the Finnish Social Science Data archive at the University of Tampere.