Summary information
Study title
Women without Spouse and Children 2004: Interviews for Research Purposes Only
Creator
Mäkinen, Arja (University of Tampere. Department of Social Policy and Social Work)
Study number / PID
FSD2395 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2395 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2395 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The survey studied unmarried 30-47-year-old women who did not have children. The purpose of the study was to chart the status of unmarried and childless women, and to canvass their conceptions of themselves and their situation. They were asked for instance about their daily life, conceptions of a good life, attitudes and prejudice of the people around them towards childlessness, sexuality and being unmarried. The respondents were contacted through an advert in several newspapers in which they were asked to give some preliminary information. After the gathering of this information, the interviews were conducted. 34 women took part in the study, 4 of which did not give permission for future re-use of their data. This part includes the interviews that can be used for research purposes only. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
16/04/2004 - 29/08/2004
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Women aged 30-47 without spouses or children
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Availability
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Interview
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2008
Terms of data access
The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.
Related publications
- Mäkinen, Arja (2006). Epäilyttävä naishenkilö: mielikuvia yksineläjien seksuaalisuudesta. Elore 13(2).
- Mäkinen, Arja (2008). Oikeesti aikuiset. Puheenvuoroja yksineläjänaisen normaaliudesta, hyväksyttävyydestä ja aikuisuudesta. Tampere. Tampere University Press.
- Mäkinen, Arja (2008). Vanhojapiikoja ja vapaita naisia. Helsinki: Kirjapaja.
- Mäkinen, Arja (2007). Perheettäkin voi elää onnellisena. Teoksessa Viia Hatara ja Harri Westermarck (toim.) Rakkauden evoluutio. Helsinki: Helsingin vapaan sivistystyön toimikunta.