Summary information

Study title

Generational Transmissions in Finland, Baby Boomers' Adult Children 2012

Creator

Rotkirch, Anna (Family Federation of Finland. Population Research Institute)

Haavio-Mannila, Elina (University of Helsinki)

Roos, Jeja-Pekka (University of Helsinki)

Danielsbacka, Mirkka (University of Helsinki)

Tanskanen, Antti O. (University of Helsinki)

Study number / PID

FSD3256 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3256 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3256 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study charted contacts of Finnish baby boomers' adult children with relatives and friends as well as giving and receiving help. The study was funded by the Academy of Finland (project id 250620) and Alli Paasikivi Foundation. FSD's holdings also include data on baby boomers collected in the same research project (FSD3255). First, the respondents were asked whether they kept up their health and whether they suffered from a long-term illness or a permanent injury. They were asked whether they considered themselves happy, if they considered religion important in their lives, and whether they had participated in charity or voluntary work within the previous year. Next, the number and gender of the respondents' children were enquired. The birth year of the respondents' and their spouses' parents was charted as well as whether the parents were still alive. More questions were asked regarding the respondents' and their spouses' living parents, such as how far away they lived, how the respondents perceived their state of health and financial circumstances, and how often they had been in contact within the previous year. They were also asked how close they were, whether they had had conflicts, and how often within the previous year the respondents had provided their own or their spouses' parents with practical or financial help. It was also enquired how often the parents had babysat the respondents' children or provided them with different kinds of help, and if the respondents had felt the need to restrict their parents ability to contact the respondents' children. Similar questions were also asked about siblings: how many brothers and sisters the respondents had, when they were born, whether they all shared the same parents, how far away they lived, how the respondents perceived their financial circumstances, how often they had been in contact, whether they had had conflicts, and whether they had received and provided help. It was also asked whether the respondents...

Social sciencesSocial behaviour and attitudesFamily life and marriage

Care of the elderlyChild careFamily membersFriendsGenerations (age)GrandchildrenGrandparentsInformal careInterpersonal relationsOffspringParentsSocial networks

Data collection period

16/03/2012 - 29/05/2012

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Adult children of baby boomers born in 1945 - 1950 in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

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

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