Summary information

Study title

Child Victim Survey 2008

Creator

Ellonen, Noora (Police University College)

Kääriäinen, Juha (Police University College)

Salmi, Venla (National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula))

Sariola, Heikki (Central Union for Child Welfare)

Study number / PID

FSD2416 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2416 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2416 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Child Victim Surveys

Child Victim Surveys chart violent experiences of children in Finland. These experiences have been surveyed since 1988. The surveys extensively study the experiences of sixth and ninth graders (people aged 12 and 15) both as victims and witnesses of violence. FSD collections cover data for 1988, 2008, 2013, and 2022.

Abstract

The survey focused on violence against children and adolescents in Finland, surveying different forms and manifestations of violence. The respondents were sixth grade (12-13 year olds) and ninth grade (15-16 year olds) pupils in schools. There were over 13,000 respondents. The main themes were experiences of crime, sibling and peer victimization, witnessing domestic violence, corporal punishment or other violence perpetrated by a parent, sexual abuse, harassment and threats via the internet and mobile phone (cyber-bullying), and school bullying. The questions on domestic violence, sexual relationships and sexual abuse were the same as presented in the FSD2406 Child Victim Survey 1988. First, the respondents were asked about their home, financial situation of the family, hobbies, friends, illnesses and disabilities, self-perceived health, smoking, drug use, taking exercise, how they spent their free-time, and their own and parents' alcohol use. Parent-child or guardian-child relationships were surveyed by asking, for example, how parents/guardians solve disputes. Next questions, adapted from the Finnish version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ, SDQ-Fin), measured emotional and behavioural problems (conduct problems, emotional symptoms, hyperactivity-inattention, peer problems and prosocial behaviour), containing both positive and negative behavioural traits. So-called conventional crime was charted by asking whether the respondents had been subjected to robbery, theft, vandalism, assault or attempted assault, unlawful threats, how often, whether they had told anyone, and whether they had suffered any injuries. Further questions dealt with the scene of the crime and the perpetrator's identity. Sibling and peer violence was studied with questions about assault, and physical and emotional bullying. Questions on these themes were based on the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ) created by Finkelhor, Hamby, Ormrod and Turner. Regarding...

Social sciencesYouthChildrenCrime and law enforcementSocial behaviour and attitudes

Data collection period

14/01/2008 - 06/02/2008

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Pupils at fifth grade (approximately 11-12 years old) and eighth grade (approximately 14-15 years old) in Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking schools in Finland in 2006

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

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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