Summary information

Study title

Everyday Experiences of Poverty: Self-administered Writings 2006

Creator

Isola, Anna-Maria
Larivaara, Meri
Mikkonen, Juha (Tiede, taide ja köyhä kansa [Association for Science, Art and the Poor])

Study number / PID

FSD2413 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2413 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2413 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The data contain over 800 writings on the conditions and experiences of poverty in Finland. They were written for a writing competition organised specially by the original researchers to collect individual experiences of people affected by poverty. The writings were in different forms, mostly autobiographical narratives but there was some fiction and poetry as well. Voluntary sample. The main theme in the narratives was coping with daily life with little money. For instance, how to manage to pay the rent and the bills and still have enough money for food. Some narratives covered poverty in the author's childhood. Many texts criticised the Finnish welfare system. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

2006 - 2006

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual
Media unit: Text

Universe

Finnish people with personal experiences of poverty

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered writings and/or diaries

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

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

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