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Living Conditions of Social Assistance Recipients and Social Work 1996
The survey charted the living conditions, life experiences and client relationship of social assistance recipients and social work. First, the respondents were asked to assess their childhood and childhood home, for example, who had looked after them the most and whether there had been serious conflicts or drinking problems in the family. The respondents were asked how many...
Father-Son Relationships and the War 1999-2001
Interviews of Finnish men who had been children during the Second World War (1939-1945). The interviews covered war-time memories, life at home during the war, and the impact of war on people in general. The main theme of the study was the respondents' relationships with their fathers. The fathers' attitudes towards their children and wife was studied as well as their...
Fatherhood 2003
An online survey on fatherhood, conducted by a Finnish newspaper just before the Father's Day in 2003. The main themes were the respondents' relationship with their own children and father. The respondents were asked, for instance, what activities they did with their children, whether they felt they had learned anything from their children and whether they had punished them....
Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Interviews of 20-Year-Olds 1980
The data are part of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS), in which the same individuals have been followed over 30 years. The themes in the interviews of 20-year-olds corresponded to the themes in the interviews of 14-year-olds, which were conducted at an earlier research stage. The themes included the respondents' current family,...
Welfare and Services in Finland 2006: Families with Children
Welfare and Services in Finland is a panel survey that combines telephone and face-to-face interviews, postal surveys and register data. The aim of the study is to offer up-to-date, reliable and extensive research data on Finnish welfare and the use of welfare services. The topics in this collection round, which was aimed at families with children, included family...
Child Barometer 2016
The Child Barometer 2016 charted how 6-year-old Finnish children felt about trust. Views on trust were surveyed on terms of social relations, emotions, and bullying. With regard to social relations, the children were asked about the number of friends they had, whether they received praise, and whether their parents and kindergarten teachers listened to them. The children...
Body Image and Childhood Memories 2015
The Body Image and Childhood Memories 2015 data consist of 71 texts about appearance and one's own body image in relation to youth and childhood experiences. The texts deal with a variety of topics ranging from obesity and fashion to beauty standards and changes in own appearance through different ages. Most of the respondents were women. The respondents' age varied between...
Child Barometer 2018
The study charted how 6-year-old Finnish children exercised and spent their leisure time. Both the children and their parents were interviewed for the study. The study was funded by the State Youth Council. First, the parents were asked about their children's hobbies, participation in instructed activities during leisure time and the amount of exercise they got. Reasons...
Verwijzing naar de data van: Health behaviour in School-aged children - HBSC
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) is a cross-national research study conducted in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The study aims to gain new insight into, and increase our understanding of young people's health and well-being, health behaviours and their social context.
Getuigen Verhalen, De Russenoorlog, opstand Georgische troepen op Texel, interview 04
Akkie van de Kerkhof - Kikkert (75) groeide op in een streng-christelijk gezin op een boerderij nabij de Koog. De boerderij stond aan de Ruigendijk, de grens tussen het 'oude land' van Texel en de Eijerlandse polder. Ze vertelt over haar onbezorgde en gelukkige jeugd op Texel. Haar ouders waren zeer behendig in de omgang met de oorlog. Armoede heeft het gezin nooit gekend,...
Finnish Memories of Childhood Fears 2020-2021
The dataset consists of self-administered written texts on childhood fears. Participants were invited to write about their childhood fears and about the places to which their childhood fears were connected. The study aimed to collect data about the places where participants remembered experiencing fear and anxiety during their childhoods. The experiences of fear and anxiety...
Substance Abuse Treatment: Inpatient Treatment Therapist Responses to Frame Stories 2008
The data are part of Substance Abuse Treatment series, which comprises datasets that can be used in both quantitative and qualitative research. The respondents were drug and alcohol counsellors who worked in inpatient treatment facilities and who had a minimum of one year's experience in substance abuse treatment. The data consist of written responses to five different frame...
Substance Abuse Treatment: Reasons for Career Choice 2008
The data are part of Substance Abuse Treatment series, which comprises datasets that can be used in both quantitative and qualitative research. This dataset comprise 20 transcribed interviews. In them, therapists working with people with substance abuse problems were interviewed about the reasons, factors and motives for their career choice, such as childhood experiences,...
Substance Abuse Treatment: Background Information for Therapists' Career Choice 2008
The data are part of Substance Abuse Treatment series, which comprises datasets that can be used in both quantitative and qualitative research. This dataset contains responses to the background questionnaire that was collected from the therapists interviewed in FSD2692. The respondents were first asked which treatment method or approach they themselves mostly used and how...
Substance Abuse Treatment: Therapists' Gender Roles 2008
The data are part of Substance Abuse Treatment series, which comprises datasets that can be used in both quantitative and qualitative research. This dataset was collected as an internet survey for drug and alcohol counsellors in Finnish outpatient clinics. The survey included four sections. The first section focused on the respondents' background. Questions covered the...
Childhood Friendships in 20th Century Finland 2018-2019
This dataset consists of 65 texts written on Finnish childhood memories of friendship from the 20th Century. Data collection was organised by the Finnish Literature Society and researcher Antti Malinen. In the writing guidelines, the participants were asked to write about their own childhood, concentrating on themes such as the meaning of friends and what they discussed or...
Black Immigrants to Britain, 1890-1975
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.
Life-history interviews with black immigrants born before 1911 focusing on family life, community and work...
Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study, colloquially known as '100 Families', sought to trace connections between family life and social mobility. It did so through 170 in-depth life story interviews spread across three generations of family life.
The research team, headed by Paul Thompson and Howard Newby at the University of...
Adding Quality to Quantity: Quality of Life in Older Age, 2000-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The broad aim of the study was to define the constituents of quality of life in older age. The research questions were twofold: how do older people define and prioritise quality of life, and how do they feel it can be improved? While the aim of the exploratory part of the research presented here was to...
North East Area Study, 1973; Sense of Place and Local Identity Study (SOPLI)
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to assess the `sense of place', local identity, attachment to area and perception of residents in the North East. Interviews were carried out in the four communities of Stockton, Spennymoor, Sunderland and Tynemouth.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Respondents...
Digit ratios and masculinity-femininity of women 2020
Homosexual women are, on average, more masculine in their appearance and behavior than heterosexual women. We hypothesized that their masculinity was influenced by exposure to elevated levels of prenatal androgen during early development. We recruited 199 women (including 67 homosexual women) and measured their masculinity via self-report and observer ratings. Our measure of...
British Election Study, October 1974; Cross-Section Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Attention to newspapers and television, degree of political interest, attitude towards election, perceived differences between political parties. Opinion of Liberal and Scottish National Party campaigns, opinion on the various political parties....
Longitudinal Survey of Adoptive Parents, 2015-2017
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Longitudinal Survey of Adoptive Parents, 2015-2017 is one of the elements of the evaluation of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) commissioned by the Department for Education. The ASF is an important initiative introduced in 2015 aimed at enabling adopted children and their families to access therapeutic...
Risk and resilience following childhood maltreatment 2013-2017
Data was collected at home, university and school settings from children 10-16 by trained psychology staff in a quiet setting. Data were collected via questionnaires and with psychological experimental tasks. The functional tasks investigated both autobiographical memory and affect processing. This research is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of...
Pioneers of Social Research, 1996-2018
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The Pioneers of Social Research collection includes the full interview transcripts, interview summaries, edited thematic highlights, short biographies and links to audio extracts from detailed life story interviews conducted with some fifty pioneers of social...
Investigating Musical Performance: Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning, 2006-2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Investigating Musical Performance: Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning, 2006-2007 (IMP) is a mixed methods study was devised as a two-year comparative study to investigate how Western classical, popular, jazz and Scottish traditional musicians deepen and develop their learning about...
Employment Choices for Mothers of Pre-School Children, 1998-2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This project examined the psychological processes and demographic variables which predict the decisions women make about returning to work after they have their first child. A cohort survey of 413 women was carried out - questionnaire surveys were conducted in pregnancy and at six and 12 months...
Sociological Study of British Chaplains to Higher Education, 1974
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to collect data regarding occupational attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, career patterns and demographic characteristics of chaplains to higher education.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
a) Postal questionnaire
Pietism, denominational support, ecumenicism, parish,...
Outmigration from Rural Scotland, 2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The focus of this project was on the community consequences of out-migration and the migration experiences of individuals. The objectives of the research were:
to analyse out-migration data from the 1991 Census;
to test the value of the Register of Sasines for migration research;
to describe and evaluate...
Social Networks and Social Capital: the Careers of Political Activists, 2000-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This mixed methods study is one of 21 projects that were commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of its Democracy and Participation Programme. The project involved three components. The first component was to examine the determinants of political involvement and activism in...