Customer Paths of the Vocational Rehabilitation Survey (AKSE)
The Vocational Rehabilitation Survey (AKSE) combines a rehabilitation survey and a rehabilitation needs assessment, which were previously separate services. AKSE is a service in which a multiprofessional team and a client jointly assess a person's work, functional and study ability, competence, working life skills, and need for rehabilitation. Based on the report, the client and the multiprofessional team together prepare a professional plan for the client.
Research questions
- What kind of customers are referred to the AKSE service? What sociodemographic factors characterise the clientele, and what is their position in the labour market? What is known about their functional capacity based on Kela's register data, especially from the perspective of illnesses or injuries?
- What Kela services and benefits preceded the AKSE service?
- Which Kela services do AKSE service users typically engage with, and what benefits will be received after the service?
The research material used is Kela's rehabilitation registers, which are used to examine rehabilitation application and payment data. The material is also combined with information on the customer's use of medicines and sociodemographic data. The persons included in the study are selected from Kela's benefit registers and include all those who received a positive decision on AKSE rehabilitation in 2019–2021 and their Kela rehabilitation from 2017–2022. After selection, the data is processed with R software in Kela's analytics environment. The research data is analysed using statistical methods suitable for processing quantitative data.
Researchers
- Pekka Heino, Leading Researcher
- Saija Karinkanta
- Riitta Seppänen-Järvelä
Project Implementation Period
1 September 2023–31 December 2024
