Summary information
Study title
Life Stories of Women Care Entrepreneurs
Creator
Hasanen, Kirsi (University of Tampere. Department of Women's Studies)
Study number / PID
FSD2398 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2398 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2398 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The study charted how care entrepreneurs formed their professional identities. The data, collected in 2004-2005, consist of 33 life stories written by women who worked as entrepreneurs in the field of care all over Finland. The topics discussed in the life stories included reasons for becoming a care entrepreneur, creating the enterprise, operation, principles and values of the enterprise, difficulties, the future, and good sides of being an entrepreneur. The archived material includes 101 pages, and the length of a single life story ranges from 1 to 13 pages. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
04/2004 - 01/2005
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Media unit: Text
Universe
Female care entrepreneurs
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Availability
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Self-administered writings and/or diaries: E-mail
Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2009
Terms of data access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Related publications
- Hasanen, Kirsi (2013). Narrating care and entrepreneurship. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
- Hasanen, Kirsi (2014). Emännöivä toimitusjohtaja, alihankkija ja naisammattilainen. Hoivayrittäjän asemat markkinoituvassa palvelujärjestelmässä. Janus 21 (4), 330-344.