Summary information

Study title

Horse Dealer Interviews 2012

Creator

Schuurman, Nora (University of Eastern Finland. Karelian Institute)

Study number / PID

FSD3109 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3109 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3109 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The data contain Finnish horse dealers' interviews that examined the impact of the interaction between man and horse on the trade situation. Ethical questions on the wellbeing of horses in horse trading were also studied. The interviewees were asked about things such as the fulfilment of customers' expectations of horses, the impact of the chemistry between the horse and the customer on the sales process, how the dealers guided the customers, and how the dealers knew whether the horse was suitable for the customer. Furthermore, the dealers were asked to reminisce a successful horse trade, and an instance where they had had to intervene with the choice made by the customer. Lastly, the respondents were asked how often horses were returned to them and how they acted in these situations. The background information included the date of the interview, as well as the interviewee's age, gender, and the time they had been in the horse dealing industry. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

20/09/2012 - 18/10/2012

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish horse dealers

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.