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Summary information

Study title

Life for LGBTIQA Youth in the Past and Present 2014

Creator

Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Folklore Archives

Study number / PID

FSD3020 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3020 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3020 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The data comprises texts written about what it is and was like to live one's youth in Finland as a person belonging to a sexual or gender minority or otherwise questioning sexual and gender norms. The responses were collected as part of Seta's and Finnish Youth Research Society's research project "Wellbeing of LGBTIQ Youth" (2012-2014) funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Form of the texts was not restricted and the participants could write, for instance, poems or narratives. The texts covered themes and topics such as own gender identity and sexuality and its development, experiences of belonging to a minority group, social networks and relationships, loneliness, civic participation, and other people's attitudes. Dataset only available in Finnish.

Topics

Social sciencesSocial behaviour and attitudesYouthGender and gender roles

Keywords

BisexualityChildhoodDiscriminationHomosexualityLife historiesMinority groupsSame-sex relationshipsSexual identitySexual orientationYouth

Methodology

Data collection period

27/01/2014 - 30/04/2014

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual
Event/Process/Activity
Media unit: Text

Universe

Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, cross dressers (transvestites), agender people, asexuals, intersex people, queer people and other people challenging sexual and gender norms who had lived their youth in Finland

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

2015

Terms of data access

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

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