Summary information

Study title

Physical Activity and Digital Gaming of Sixth-Graders 2015

Creator

Kaskinen, Ari-Pekka (University of Turku)
Katila, Rauli (University of Turku)

Study number / PID

FSD3560 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3560 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3560 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The survey charted Finnish sixth-graders' habits regarding physical activity, watching sports, and digital gaming. First, the respondents were asked about their exercise habits during their leisure time, both regarding physical activity without an adult's instruction (e.g. walking, playing games with friends) and with an adult's instruction (e.g. sports clubs, but excluding physical activity classes at school). Additionally, they were asked how important they felt physical activity and exercise were for them personally. Next, the respondents' habits of watching sports, either in person or on TV or other media, were surveyed. As with physical activity and exercise, they were also asked how important they felt watching sports was to them. Finally, the respondents were asked how often they played digital games, whether the games they played related to sports, and how important playing digital games was to them. The respondents' gender was charted as a background variable.

Methodology

Data collection period

2015

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Sixth-graders in Finland (11-12-year-olds)

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

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

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