Summary information

Study title

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS): Life History Calendar of 50-Year-Olds 2009

Creator

Pulkkinen, Lea (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-4290-6690
Kinnunen, Marja-Liisa (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology)
Kokko, Katja (University of Jyväskylä. Department of Psychology) - 0000-0002-8747-2080

Study number / PID

FSD2786 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2786 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2786 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS)

Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development was initiated as Lea Pulkkinen's doctoral dissertation in 1968. Since then, the study has continued to follow the same individuals for over 40 years. When the project was launched, 369 eight-year-old children participated in the research. They were randomly selected among second-graders in primary school. After the first research, data have been collected when the respondents have been 14, 20, 27, 33, 36, 42, 50, and 60 years old. The latest data collection started in 2020. When the respondents were still in school, the...

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Abstract

The data are part of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS), in which the same individuals have been followed over 40 years. At this research stage, the lives of 50-year-olds were surveyed in terms of family, work, health, and leisure. This dataset contains the responses to the life history calendar, which was filled in during the interviews, where the respondents told about their life from the age of 15 onwards with the help of a table describing life events. The respondents' life events between the ages of 15 and 42 were previously charted when they were 42 years old (FSD2124). This dataset contains both these earlier responses and the responses collected from the respondents at the age of 50 charting life events from the age of 43 to 50. The life history calendar was used to examine what kind of events had occurred in the lives of the respondents and when. The respondents were asked where they had lived each year, when they had moved away from their parents' home, and whether they had ever been homeless. Cohabitations, marriages and childbirths were also marked in the calendars. The respondents were also asked about their education, full-time and part-time jobs, and periods of unemployment. The respondents indicated whether they had been homemakers, conscripted, on leave of absence, or retired and when. Relating to employment, the respondents were asked whether they had learned new skills/tasks after the age of 42 and if they had, when this had taken place and whether learning new skills/tasks had been associated with changing jobs. In addition, they were asked to tell about the deaths and serious accidents of their friends and close relatives, as well as whether they had ever been victims of a crime or caught for committing an illegal act, such as speeding, vandalism, theft, or violence and whether they had been convicted of these acts. The respondents who had not filled out the life history calendar in the previous...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/2009 - 05/2010

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Persons who were second grade students in a school in Jyväskylä at the time of the first data collection in 1968 and who continued to participate in the longitudinal study. The sample was collected both from the town centre and suburbs.

Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

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