Summary information

Study title

Finnish Attitudes towards Alcohol 2008

Creator

University of Jyväskylä. Research Centre for Health Promotion

Study number / PID

FSD2415 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2415 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2415 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Finnish Attitudes towards Alcohol

Finnish Attitudes towards Alcohol surveys, conducted every two years by SOSTE Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health, chart the opinions of Finns aged 15-79 on alcohol use and alcohol policy. Until 2010, the surveys were carried out by the Finnish Centre for Health and Welfare (Tekry ry). The first survey was conducted in 2006. Views have been studied on, among others, Finnish drinking culture, alcohol taxation, drink drive limits, alcohol advertising, and regulation of alcohol purchase and consumption. The data are collected by telephone interviews. The FSD collections cover data...

Abstract

The survey charted Finnish attitudes towards alcohol consumption and various alcohol political measures with the help of 14 questions. Questions covered, for example, the current level of alcohol consumption, general attitudes towards alcohol use, official supervision, selling alcohol, limit for drink driving, alcohol locks, alcohol tax, alcohol advertising, participation of alcohol industry in preparing alcohol-related laws and acts, drinking in public, and insecurity caused by other people's alcohol use. Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, education, occupational status, household composition, occupational status of the household head, employment status, household size, household annual income, and place of residence according to various classifications.

Social sciencesSocial welfare policyDrug abuse, alcohol and smoking

AdvertisingAlcohol useAlcoholismDrinking behaviour

Data collection period

05/2008

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish people aged 15 - 79 living in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Telephone interview

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2009

Terms of data access

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

Laari, Liisa & Opari, Päivi & Varamäki, Ritva (2008). Suomalaisten alkoholiasenteet. Helsinki: Terveyden edistämisen keskus. Terveyden edistämisen keskuksen julkaisuja; 3/2008.