Summary information

Study title

Internet Use of Finns 2013

Creator

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)
15/30 Research

Study number / PID

FSD2985 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2985 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2985 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study charted Finnish Internet use, online behaviour, and use of consumer electronics and mobile devices. The study was produced in collaboration by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) and 15/30 Research. The data are freely available on the Internet and licensed under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). The data creators have expressed their wish that any publications based on the data are linked to Finnish Broadcasting Company's 'Kehitys kehittyy' blog (http://blogit.yle.fi/kehitys-kehittyy/suomalaiset-verkossa-2013-puhelin-valloittaa-itselleen-lisaa-tilaa-suomalaisten) and that data users cite the original study. The respondents were first asked how important various media were for them personally (e.g. news websites, social media, television services, peer-to-peer networks, books) and to what extent they agreed with a number of statements relating to news and media (e.g. "I'm worried about excessive media commercialisation"). Importance of various reasons and motivations for using the Internet were charted (e.g. "I search for the latest information on something", "I reminisce old times"). The respondents were asked how often they did different things on the Internet (e.g. write on forums, download music and series etc., use instant messaging services, use social media). Some questions investigated the respondents' mobile phone use for different purposes, and whether the respondents owned a Smart TV and used online services on it. Various media websites and online services regularly used by the respondents were charted. Relating to Facebook, the respondents were asked to what extent they played games of Facebook, had more than one profile, were worried about how corporations or other people used their personal information, kept in touch with relatives and family over Facebook, liked companies or brands, and received information about hobbies or interests. Finally, computer use was investigated as well as opinions on the Finnish Broadcasting...
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Methodology

Data collection period

04/2013

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish Internet users aged 15-74 years

Sampling procedure

Information not available

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

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