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Study title

Finnish Drinking Habits Survey 2008

Creator

Mäkelä, Pia (National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES))
Mustonen, Heli (National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES))

Study number / PID

FSD2587 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2587 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2587 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

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Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The survey charted alcohol consumption and illegal drug use in Finland, type and volume of alcohol consumption and its consequences, general attitudes towards alcohol and gambling. Funding for the research was provided by the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES), Academy of Finland, Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, and the Alcohol Programme of the Finnish Government. Similar surveys have been conducted at eight-year intervals in 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992 and 2000 but these are not archived at the FSD. First, attitudes to alcohol were studied with several statements (e.g. one should not use alcohol in the presence of small children, people use too much alcohol in Finland, those who drink have more fun than those who don't). Alcohol use was charted with questions on beverage used with meals on Sundays, use of alcohol for medicinal purposes and general use of different beverages (beer, wine, home-brew, spirits etc). The data contain a constructed variable b27 defining the respondents as users or non-users of alcohol. Non-users were presented with various statements charting the reasons for their abstinence. They were also asked about other people's attitudes and reactions to their non-use and previous alcohol consumption habits. Users of alcohol were asked about their alcohol consumption patterns, maximum volume used in one day, frequency of using various beverages, volume used generally at a time and where consumed, and how often they drank so much they could really feel it ('binge drinking'). The data also contain the following constructed variables: annual alcohol use (vkqfto08) and annual use by beverage type (vkqfol08, vkqfvi08, vkqfsi08 and vkqfvak08). One theme pertained to importing, home distillation/brewing and smuggling alcohol. Questions covered the type and volume of alcohol imported, home-brewed or smuggled. Type and volume of smuggled alcohol bought were charted as well. The survey covered instances of...
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Topics

Social sciencesMedical and health sciencesSocial behaviour and attitudesSocial welfare policyDrug abuse, alcohol and smoking

Keywords

AddictionAlcohol smugglingAlcohol useAlcoholismDrinking behaviourDrinking offencesDrug abuseGamblingHealth

Methodology

Data collection period

08/09/2008 - 21/11/2008

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15-69 at the end of the year 2007 and living in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands inhabitants and those living in institutions

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Telephone interview
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2010

Terms of data access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

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