ActiveAge (AAGE-2015): Survey of Locations and Wellbeing for Older Adults in Helsinki

5000 randomly sampled individuals aged 55-75 provided data on home locations, errand points, and happy places in the Helsinki metropolitan area in 2015. The dataset was collected by Prof. Marketta Kyttä's research team at Aalto University using the Maptionnaire tool. Funding was provided by the Finnish ministry of education and culture.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial accessibility of services for older adults based on everyday errand points.
• Model the distribution of positive emotional experiences in urban spaces based on reported happy places.
• Study residential patterns and daily mobility of an older demographic based on home and errand location data.

Strengths

• Data was collected from a random sample of 5000 individuals, which likely supports statistical representativeness for the target population.
• The dataset includes three distinct location types (home, errands, happy places) linked to individual respondents.
• Spatial data uses a defined coordinate reference system (ETRS89_TM35FIN_E_N) for geographic analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, Finland (Prof. Marketta Kyttä's research team).

Collection Method

Collected via the Maptionnaire online survey tool from a random sample.

Time Range

2015

Geography

Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland (municipalities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Espoo).