15.12.2009 Standing in the check-out line ranks high on the list of concerns – Consumers’ views on the safety of running errands in grocery stores and shopping centres

This study focuses on the experiences of consumers concerning the safety of running errands in shopping centres and grocery stores. The concept of running errands here includes not only the actual shopping but also the trips to and from the store or shopping centre. This research endeavours to clarify how consumers experience the safety aspect of running errands in different kinds of shopping centres and grocery stores.

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05.11.2009 Helsinki Metropolitan Area migration flows in flux

“Helsinki Metropolitan Area migration flows in flux” is a survey examining migration flows, their patterns, and the factors influencing them in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The survey covers migration flow from other parts of Finland to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, migration flow within the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and that from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area to the surrounding municipalities. The objective is to discover the reasons that influence migration decisions and to identify various consumer types associated with migration. A mail-in questionnaire mapping out the direction of, motives for, and background to migration was completed by over 1 300 respondents in autumn 2008. Research data was also collected through thematic interviews with migrants.

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05.11.2009 ”We found a home that’s right for us” – Experiences with new living environments among those who migrate into, out of and within the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

The study focuses on the reasons for migrating within the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area to the surrounding municipalities and from other parts of Finland to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area from the perspective of the people who are moving themselves, the effects of physical, social and financial changes to how households function as well as the views of those migrating out of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area on how to improve the attractiveness of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as a living environment. The study is based on thematic interviews with 24 people who have moved.

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11.06.2009 Developing Resident Services in the Apartment Building Village

The goal of the Developing Resident Services in the Apartment Building Village project is to find new types of solutions to meet the service needs of residents of housing cooperatives on Itätuulenkuja located in Tapiola in Espoo. The goal is to create a safe, easy to use, and flexible service model, which offers different types of services that support living at home to residents.

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28.05.2009 Development review of living – consumers and players of the housing industry assessing new living concepts in the Helsinki metropolitan area

The Future Concepts of Urban Housing project, ‘URBA’, evaluates new ways of living and doing business. The National Consumer Research Centre’s part in the three-year project, which started in 2007, was to implement the assessment of the international living concepts identified by the experts at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies.

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