Summary information

Study title

Finnish Sex Survey 1992

Creator

Haavio-Mannila, Elina (University of Helsinki. Department of Sociology)

Kontula, Osmo (University of Helsinki. Department of Public Health)

Study number / PID

FSD1243 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1243 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd1243 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

A national survey on Finnish sexual life and sexual behaviour. Many questions were repeats from the 1971 Finnish Sex Life Survey (FSD1242e) and allow for comparative study of the data contained in these two surveys. However, in this survey some themes received greater emphasis (e.g. sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment, single persons, homosexuality and casual affairs). At first respondents were asked about their parental home and sex education received at home and in school. The number of times respondents had been married or lived together with someone were investigated, likewise whether pregnancy had been the reason for getting married/start cohabiting. Respondents in a steady relationships were asked how they had met their partner, the length and happiness of the relationship, did they find it easy to talk about sex with their partner and how important sex was to the happiness of the relationship. Respondents with no steady relationship were asked what factors might have contributed to this. The number of friends, physical exercise habits, smoking and alcohol consumption were charted. Respondents' state of health was examined by asking whether they had certain symptoms (e.g. insomnia, exhaustion, dizziness) or suffered from certain chronic illnesses or injuries (e.g. cancer, angina pectoris) and whether they needed information on how this would affect their sexual life. Female respondents of certain age groups were asked about hormonal replacement therapy HRT. Respondents' general happiness and feelings of loneliness were studied. Some questions focused on respondents' love life: falling in love, did they love somebody and were they themselves loved. Sexual morals were charted by asking respondents to what extent they agreed with statements relating to sex without love, sexual freedom, women's right to take the initiative, homosexuality, unions between homosexuals, polygamy of men and monogamy of women, casual sex, infidelity, viewing...

Social sciencesFamily life and marriageReproductive healthGeneral health and well-being

Interpersonal relationsAttitudesLife stylesInfidelityLoveSexual behaviourSexual harassmentSexual intimacySingle personsUnmarriedCourtshipDating

Data collection period

11/1991 - 02/1992

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 18-74 living in Finland

Excludes: people in residential care and persons who suffer from serious psychical or mental illnesses

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Suoknuuti, Helena (1994). Finnish sex: the tables of all the questions of the 1992 survey and the comparable questions of the 1971 survey. Helsinki: Kansanterveystieteen laitokset. Kansanterveystieteen julkaisuja M; 113.
Kontula, Osmo & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1995). Sexual pleasures: enhancement of sex life in Finland 1971-1992. Dartmouth: Aldershot.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Rotkirch, Anna (1998). Generational and Gender Differences in sexual Life in St. Petersburg and Urban Finland. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland XXXIV, 133-160. Helsinki: The Population Research Institute.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo (1994). Sexual behavior changes in Finland during the last 20 years. Nordisk Sexologi 12(3), 196-214.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo & Kuusi, Elina (2001). Trends in sexual life: measured by national sex surveys in Finland in 1971, 1992 and 1999, and a comparison to a sex survey in St. Petersburg in 1996. Helsinki: Family Federation of Finland, Population Research Institute. Working papers E; 10.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo (2003). Sexual Trends in the Baltic Sea Area. Helsinki: The Family Federation of Finland. The Population Research Institute. Publications of the Population Research Institute, Series D 41/2003.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo (2003). Single and Double Sexual Standards in Finland, Estonia, and St. Petersburg. The Journal of Sex Research, 40(1), 36-49.
Suomalainen seksi: tietoa suomalaisten sukupuolielämän muutoksesta (1993). Toim. Osmo Kontula & Elina Haavio-Mannila. Juva: WSOY.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Sinnemäki, Aino (2005). Sosioekonominen asema, sosiaalinen liikkuvuus ja seksuaalinen liikkuvaisuus. Teoksessa: Tutkimus menetelmien pyörteissä (toim. Pekka Räsänen & Anu-Hanna Anttila & Harri Melin), 257-278. Jyväskylä: PS-kustannus.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Roos, J.P. & Rotkirch, Anna (2004). Olivatko suuret ikäluokat murroksen moottoreita? Sukupolven ja periodin vaikutuksen erittelyä seksin, politiikan ja vapaa-ajan suhteen. Teoksessa: Yhteiskunnan moottori vai kivireki? Suuret ikäluokat ja 1960-lukulaisuus (toim. Jani Erola & Terhi-Anna Wilska), 215-238. Jyväskylä: Sophi.
Haavio-Mannila, Elina & Kontula, Osmo (2001). Seksin trendit meillä ja naapureissa. Helsinki: WSOY.
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