etutekijät
Etutekijät is a Finnish term used in research to describe factors that exist before a process or outcome and influence how it unfolds. They can act as prerequisites, enabling conditions or constraints that shape trajectories, rather than as direct causes or outcomes themselves.
In practice, etutekijät help explain why certain results occur more often in some populations or situations.
Examples of etutekijät appear across disciplines. In education, parental education level and early literacy exposure are
The concept is distinct from proximate causes or immediate risk factors because etutekijät precede outcomes and
Etymology-wise, etu- means “before” or “advantage,” and tekijä means “factor” or “actor.” While widely used in Finnish