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Mobile Phone Use of Late Teens 2000-2002

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Study title

Mobile Phone Use of Late Teens 1998-1999

Creator

Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)

Study number / PID

FSD2182 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2182 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2182 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Young people as Actors in the New Era of Communication Technology 1997-2002

The data in the series studied the adoption and use of mobile phones in the lives of Finnish children, young people and families. There are over ten thousand pages of interview transcriptions. Interviewees were families, teenagers, young people, courting couples and teachers. In addition to mobile phone use, the interviews hold information about the everyday lives of Finns at the time. Data collection started in 1997 and continued in three different projects, funded by Nokia Mobile Phones, Telecom Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. In 2001, Information...

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Abstract

The survey charted the late teens' use of mobile phones in Finland. The archived data consist of interviews conducted with late teens (aged 16-18) between 1998 and 1999. Topics covered the use of mobile phones with friends, in everyday life and in school. The dataset comprises 27 interviews. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Topics

Social sciencesHumanitiesYouthInformation societyConsumption and consumer behaviourSocial behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

AdvertisingElectronic mailFamily lifeInformation societyInterpersonal communicationLife stylesMass media useMobile communicationSocial networksYouth

Methodology

Data collection period

11/1998 - 03/1999

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section
Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Teenagers aged around 16-18 in Finland

Sampling procedure

Non-probability

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2006

Terms of data access

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

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