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Jugendstudie: Selbständige/Unternehmer 1993
Mehrere Bände: Thema: Jugendstudie Teil 1, Selbständige/Unternehmer
Life Stories of Women Care Entrepreneurs
The study charted how care entrepreneurs formed their professional identities. The data, collected in 2004-2005, consist of 33 life stories written by women who worked as entrepreneurs in the field of care all over Finland. The topics discussed in the life stories included reasons for becoming a care entrepreneur, creating the enterprise, operation, principles and values of...
Significance and Role of Family Businesses in Society 2002
The survey charted small and medium-sized Finnish enterprises in 2002. The aim was to examine the significance, challenges and problems of family businesses in Finland as well as to produce concrete and current information on the development needs of family businesses. First, general information was obtained on the company. Questions charted the year of foundation, number of...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 1988
The survey canvassed Finnish citizens' attitudes and values. Themes included education, upbringing, internationalisation, and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, privatisation, and structural change. The respondents' views on economic growth, environmental issues, technology, political system, and the exercise of power were also probed. Background variables included the...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 1990
The values and attitudes of the Finns in 1990 were studied in the survey. On the basis of various propositions the respondents were asked about their attitude towards internationalisation in general, and its effects in Finland on trade and other forms of co-operation with different regions, on chances of success of various Finnish fields of production, on European...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2006
The survey charted Finnish attitudes and values. The respondents were presented with a series of attitudinal statements covering occupational life, work-life balance, social welfare, environmental issues, influencing, decision-making, political life, economy, globalisation, and political power. They were also asked how the government should prioritise different areas of its...
Finnish Youth Survey 2019
Main themes of the Finnish Youth Survey 2019 included employment and entrepreneurship. First, the respondents were asked what they thought of as work and employment (e.g. paid and unpaid work, doing research on grants, being a freelancer). If the respondents were in paid employment or worked as entrepreneurs, they were asked whether their current work tasks corresponded to...
Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas: Follow-up Interviews 2016
The dataset consists of interviews with female entrepreneurs in the North Karelia and Pirkanmaa regions in Finland. The interviews are follow-ups to interviews conducted in 2001-2002 and 2009 (FSD2508 Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas 2001-2009). Of the 18 individuals who took part in the previous interview round, 11 participated in the follow-up interviews. The interviews...
Aalto University Teacher Views on Entrepreneurship 2012
Aalto University Teacher Views on Entrepreneurship 2012 charted the views of Aalto University teachers about entrepreneurship, entrepreneur spirit, and whether entrepreneurial people were suitable for the university, as well as attitudes towards the structural changes that were implemented in Aalto University, and how these changes have affected education and the teachers'...
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship 2011-2014
This dataset contains six interviews with entrepreneurs providing services for dog hobbyists. Some of the businesses provided training services for e.g. agility and herding sports, others accommodation and catering services. The interviewees shared their experiences of starting a business, their work history, customer service practices, combining hobby and entrepreneurship,...
Cultural Industries and the City, 1980-1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study examined the relationship between the cultural industries sector and strategies to promote Manchester as a competitive and creative city.
Using in-depth qualitative interviews, the research had three aims. Firstly, to examine the working practices of small firms, entrepreneurs and...
At the Margins of the Chinese World System : the Fuzhou Diaspora in Europe, 1999-2001
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Beginning in January 1999, this project started by gathering basic information on immigration, through-migration and employment patterns in selected European countries (Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Russia). Subsequently, exploratory research in Fujian...
National Survey for Wales, 2014-2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Welsh Government's National Survey for Wales covers a random sample of 12,000 adults a year (aged 16+) living in private households across Wales. The survey provides representative, reliable and up-to-date information about the people of Wales down to local authority level.The survey began in 2012. In...
Scientific Career Transitions: from Public to Private Sector Science, 2004-2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A great deal of debate has taken place in recent years about the changing nature of knowledge production and the increased commercialisation of science. This study focused on research scientists who had moved between public and private sector contexts. In particular, the following groups were examined:...
United Kingdom Survey of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises' Finances, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.In January 2004, a consortium of public and private sector organisations commissioned Warwick Business School to carry out the United Kingdom Survey of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises' (SME) Finances, 2004. This was the first representative survey of SMEs to offer a close analysis of businesses with...
Targeting the ultra poor in Bangladesh, household survey 2014
A household survey of a randomized control trial in rural Bangladesh conducted in 2014 which collected data on the long-run outcomes of the Targeting the Ultra Poor program conducted by the NGO BRAC. This survey is the 7 year follow-up.
The research examines a new set of interventions, pioneered by the world's largest NGO BRAC in Bangladesh, which simultaneously tackle the...
Exploring the changing roles, identities and wellbeing of women in small-scale fishing families, 2018-2020
The data collection includes anonymised interview transcripts. The interviews are narrative based interviews that focus on exploring participants biographical narratives. The data was collected throughout the UK in the year of 2019. Interviews focused on understanding the lived experiences of women in fisheries through exploring participant’s biographical narratives around...
Conserving Cultural Heritage: The Resilience of Forcibly Displaced Syrian Artisans in Jordan, 2016-2018
The project addressed Jordan ’s development challenges arising from the burgeoning influx of displaced Syrians by exploring the resilience, vulnerabilities and identities of the displaced Syrian artisans residing in Jordan since the war in Syria erupted in 2011. It addressed questions about the socio-political impact of engaging in cultural heritage crafts on the displaced...
Interviews with Law-Tech Firm Founders and Financiers, 2020
What human and financial capital inputs are needed to sustain and scale-up a legal innovation (‘LawTech’) ecosystem in Britain? How do networks within the sector foster and sustain the diffusion of innovation? We present a database of 20 interviews with 15 lawtech firm founders and 5 venture capitalists who invest in lawtech firms to address these questions and help inform...
Migration for Inclusive African Growth, 2020-2021
The data comprises two forms of data collected across four African countries; Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique and Kenya. These were:
• The results of a business survey administered to both migrant-owned and non-migrant owned businesses in the four case study countries. The survey data is contained within an Excel spreadsheet with responses organised in four separate sheets by...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2009
The survey charted Finnish attitudes and values. The respondents were presented with a series of attitudinal statements covering occupational life, work-life balance, social welfare, environmental issues, influencing, decision-making, political life, economy, globalisation, and political power. Confidence in various actors in society, such as the Parliament, the legal...
Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas 2001-2009
The data consist of face-to-face interviews of 16 female entrepreneurs in the North Karelia and Pirkanmaa regions in Finland. The main themes of the interviews were female entrepreneurship in rural areas, challenges and advantages of rural enterprise, reasons for becoming an entrepreneur, financial circumstance at the time of the interview, financial prospects, and life-work...
Transformation of the Work of Forest Machine Contractors 1998
The study investigated forest machine contracting in Finland and changes brought by the rationalization that has taken place in felling and logging operations. Data were collected through interviews, and the dataset consists of 12 interview transcripts. The interviewees were forest machine contractors. Main themes were the development of the business, staff and recruitment,...
Finnish Youth Survey 2003
The main theme of the survey was entrepreneurship. First, the respondents were presented a set of attitudinal statements about work, working life, unemployment and success at work. They were asked what kind of company they would set up, if it was economically possible. The survey also charted whether there were entrepreneurs in the family of the respondent. The respondents...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2004
The survey charted Finnish attitudes and values. Respondents were presented with a series of attitudinal statements covering political parties, occupational life, market economy, economic growth, social welfare, environmental issues, immigration, emigration and internal migration, foreigners, internationalism, Finland's NATO membership, taxation, democracy and Finnish...
Rural Finland 2020: Political Decision-Makers, Rural Development Specialists, the Media
The Rural Finland survey explores the meaning and future of rural areas. The aim of the survey is to provide information on how Finns perceive the countryside. The study is a continuation of the surveys conducted in the Landmarks Programme of the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra) in 2009 and 2011. The aim of this part of the survey is to explore the perceptions of business...
Interviews with Employees and Entrepreneurs in the Private Sports and Physical Activity Sector 2016-2017
This dataset consists of interviews with employees and entrepreneurs in the private sports and physical activity sector in Finland. The data were collected as part of the Uuden työn sukupuolistavat käytännöt ja sopimisen muodot project (2016-2018), funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund. First, the entrepreneurs were asked about the history, current state, branding, and...
Urban elites in Leiden, 1420-1510
The dataset contains information about the urban elite in the town of Leiden in the period 1420-1510. It offers lists of magistrates of the City Council, their terms of office, data concerning choice of party and faction, occupation, education, possible entrance in monasteries or convents, ecclesiastical careers, wealth, property, marriage, and family relations in the time...
Interviews on Enterprise Development in Kauhajoki 2013
The interview study focused on business life and entrepreneurship in Kauhajoki, Finland, from the 1950s to the 21th century. The data consist of interview transcripts. The interviewees were entrepreneurs, self-employed persons, experts, public officials and shop stewards who had had a significant role in the development of local businesses. The data were organised into an...