Summary information

Study title

European Social Survey 2014: Finnish Data

Creator

Fitzgerald, Rory (City University. ESS ERIC Headquarters)
ESS Core Scientific Team
Ervasti, Heikki (University of Turku. Department of Social Research) - 0000-0002-3631-2167

Study number / PID

FSD3068 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3068 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3068 (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 data chart attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of Finnish citizens. The survey consists of a core module repeated each collection round and rotating modules on different themes. The Finnish survey is funded by the Academy of Finland. In the 2014 collection round, the survey investigated, among others, TV watching habits, social trust, politics, religion, and society. Questions about the respondents' life and social relationships were also presented as well as experiences of discrimination and attitudes towards immigration and immigrants. The respondents' health was examined with questions about exercise, smoking and alcohol use. Further questions charted, for instance, whether the respondents had visited different healthcare professionals in the previous 12 months, whether they had not received the health services they had needed, and whether they had used any alternative medicine treatments and other treatments. Finally, the respondents were asked how they viewed themselves by requesting them to indicate how much they thought certain descriptions and characteristics applied to them (Schwarz Human Values Scale). Background variables included, among others, the respondent's household composition, gender, age, marital status, type of neighbourhood of residence, education, occupation, membership in a trade union, and income of the household.

Methodology

Data collection period

03/09/2014 - 09/02/2015

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15 and over living in private residences in Finland, regardless of nationality

Sampling procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

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

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