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Summary information

Study title

Gallup Ecclesiastica 2015

Creator

Church Research Institute

Study number / PID

FSD3211 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3211 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3211 (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 the religiosity and church membership in Finland as well as people's participation in parish activities. Questions about faith, spiritual matters, and religious communities were asked. The respondents were first asked whether they were members of a church or other religious community. Those who were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and Orthodox Church were asked about the importance of a number of reasons for the Church membership (e.g. the possibility to participate in Church service, act as a godparent, the Christian values taught by the Church, aid offered by the Church) and whether they had considered quitting the Church. Those who were not members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church were asked whether they had previously quit the Church, what their reasons for quitting had been, whether they had considered joining the Church, and whether they thought that Church members should be able to choose their parish instead of it being assigned according to their area of residence. Participation in parish activities was examined with questions relating to, for example, how often the respondents attended church services or voluntary parish work and how often they prayed, read the Bible, watched or listened to religious programmes on TV or radio, and visited web sites related to religion. A number of questions surveying satisfaction with the parish, its services, and communication were also presented. Next, opinions on issues relating to the Church and religion were examined. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed with statements regarding, for example, the ordination of women, same-sex marriage, and the presence of religion in schools and on TV. Opinions on the status of religious communities and presence of religion in society were charted with questions relating to, for example, whether all religious communities should have equal status in legislation and whether the visibility of religion was...
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Topics

HumanitiesSocial sciencesReligion and values

Keywords

Beliefs (ELSST)Church (ELSST)Participation (ELSST)Protestantism (ELSST)Religion (ELSST)Religious doctrines (ELSST)Religious movements (ELSST)Religious practice (ELSST)

Methodology

Data collection period

23/10/2015 - 02/11/2015

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)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

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

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