Summary information

Study title

Memories and Mental Images of Phenomena Related to Radioactivity 2015

Creator

Lamminmäki, Suvi (University of Helsinki)

Study number / PID

FSD3079 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3079 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3079 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The twenty texts in the data deal with the participants' personal memories or life experiences related to radioactivity and nuclear safety. The texts deal with a variety of topics introduced in the writing invitation guidelines, such as early memories of radioactive phenomena, news coverage of nuclear weapon tests, the participants' experiences with the nuclear power industry or radioactive substances, nuclear safety, and nuclear accidents. Background information included the participant's name or pseudonym, age, region of residence, profession and gender. This dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

21/01/2015 - 30/07/2015

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual
Media unit: Text

Universe

People with memories of or experieces with phenomena related to radioactivity

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability
Non-probability: Respondent-assisted

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered writings and/or diaries: E-mail
Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

Not available