How is the KOTT survey conducted?
The survey is conducted once every four years. The survey is conducted by Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
Implementation
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18–34-year-old undergraduate students at universities of applied sciences and universities across Finland are invited to participate in the survey. The data collection is carried out with an online questionnaire. The survey is sent out to 12,000 randomly selected students based on data of the VIRTA student database.
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The questionnaire is available in Finnish, Swedish and English.
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In 2024, invitations will also be sent to those invited to participate in the KOTT 2021 survey who are still studying and who are enrolled in spring 2024.
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Completing the questionnaire takes approximately 20 minutes. If necessary, you can take a break and continue later.
The Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey (KOTT) has been reviewed by the THL working group on research ethics in 2020 and 2023.
More information for those invited to participate in the survey:
For KOTT survey participants
Content
The 2024 questionnaire consists of approximately 90 questions on the following topics:
- Self-perceived safety and faith in the future
- Health
- Oral health
- The use of health services
- Exercise, nutrition, and sleep
- Smoking, drinking, and drug use
- Studies
- Internet use and gambling
- Living conditions
- Social relationships
- Reconciling studies and family life
The collected data will be supplemented with data from national registers. For more information about the registers used, please refer to the survey privacy notice.
Privacy notice of the KOTT survey
Previous surveys
The survey was conducted by the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. The National Institute for Health and Welfare conducted the survey for the first time in 2021. Data collection for the first survey conducted by THL was postponed by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
