Summary information

Study title

Gallup Ecclesiastica 2019

Creator

Church Research Institute

Study number / PID

FSD3582 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3582 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3582 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Gallup Ecclesiastica

The survey series, commissioned by the Church Research Institute, studies Finnish religiosity and values, participation in the activities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and relationship to the church. Data are collected every four years. FSD collections include data from the year 1995 onwards.

Abstract

The survey studied religiosity and church membership in Finland as well as people's participation in parish activities. Questions also charted personal faith, spiritual matters, attitudes towards religious communities, and family. The respondents were first asked about helping others, donating money to charity, and the meaning of their own work. Questions surveyed why the respondents helped other people (e.g. they felt it was their duty as a citizen or a Christian, they felt good when helping others), how much money the respondents had donated to charity in the past year, and whether the respondents thought it was important that they could help and serve others in their work. The next questions focused on how the respondents spent Sundays and holidays. The respondents were asked, for example, whether they usually went to worship service on Sundays, ate a more festive meal, cooked, or cleaned. The respondents' Easter and Christmas celebrations were also examined with questions on whether they fasted or participated in a worship service on Easter and whether they visited graves or read the Christmas Gospel on Christmas. Further questions focused on fasting and the meaning of fasting to the respondents as well as the respondents' views on the importance of religious ceremonies in connection to big life events (e.g. when a child is born, marriage). Religion and worldviews were surveyed next with questions related to different religions and their teachings, spiritual matters, the existence of God, and the firmness of the respondents' belief in a number of religious tenets and phenomena (e.g. a good God, angels, the Devil). The respondents' personal spirituality was charted with questions on how often they prayed, read the Bible, watched or listened to religious programmes on TV or radio, and visited websites related to religion. The respondents were asked which books (excluding sacred books of religions), songs and spiritual influencers had the most significance for...

HumanitiesSocial sciencesReligion and values

BeliefsChurchParticipationProtestantismReligionReligious doctrinesReligious movementsReligious practiceDonations to charityReligious experience

Data collection period

20/11/2019 - 18/12/2019

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15- 79 residing in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2025

Terms of data access

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

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Salomäki, Hanna & Hytönen, Maarit & Ketola, Kimmo & Salminen, Veli-Matti & Sohlberg, Jussi (2020): Uskonto arjessa ja juhlassa: Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko vuosina 2016-2019 [verkkodokumentti]. Tampere: Kirkon tutkimuskeskus. Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja 134. https://julkaisut.evl.fi/catalog/Tutkimukset%20ja%20julkaisut/r/4238 [viitattu 9.2.2021]
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Sohlberg, Jussi (2022): Uushenkisyyteen liittyvien näkemysten kannatus 2000-luvulla kyselytutkimusten valossa. Teoksessa Veli-Matti Salminen & Niko Huttunen (toim.) Spiritualiteetti 2020-luvun Suomessa. Suomen ev.-lut. kirkon tutkimusjulkaisuja 137. Helsinki: Kirkon tutkimus ja koulutus, 258-287.