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Study title

European Social Survey 2008: Finnish Data

Creator

Jowell, Roger (City University. Centre for Comparative Social Surveys)
ESS Central Coordinating Team
Ervasti, Heikki (University of Turku. Department of Social Policy) - 0000-0002-3631-2167

Study number / PID

FSD2463 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2463 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2463 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

ESS (European Social Survey)

European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial multi-country survey covering over 30 nations. The first round was fielded in 2002/2003. All participating countries are required to contribute to the central coordination costs of the ESS ERIC. In addition, each country participating in the ESS ERIC undertakes to cover the costs of fieldwork and national coordination. The Academy of Finland funds the project in Finland. The interview data consist of a core module, which remains relatively constant from round to round, and two or three rotating modules, repeated at intervals. Additional data are...

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Abstract

The survey studied several themes, including the use of media, social trust, political participation and interest, political trust, political orientation and commitment, satisfaction with own circumstances and certain public services, perceptions of own well-being, religious views, experiences of discrimination, and national and ethnic identity. These themes are recurring in different ESS rounds. Themes for the rotating modules in this collection round included welfare attitudes and ageism. The self-administered follow-up questionnaire included the Schwartz Human Values Scale as well as test questions controlling the main questionnaire. Questions about the use of social security benefits and globalisation were also asked. The respondents' socio-demographics were widely charted, including, among others, household composition, gender, age, type of neighbourhood, education, occupation, background information on spouse and parents, trade union membership, household income, and marital status.

Topics

Social sciencesSocial behaviour and attitudesSocial welfare policy

Keywords

Age discrimination (ELSST)Elderly (ELSST)Political behaviour (ELSST)Political participation (ELSST)Public services (ELSST)Social networks (ELSST)Social security (ELSST)Social welfare (ELSST)Trust (ELSST)Values (ELSST)Well-being (health) (ELSST)

Methodology

Data collection period

19/09/2008 - 05/02/2009

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15 years and older

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

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Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2010

Terms of data access

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

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