Summary information

Study title

Enhancing Leisure Time Activities: Interview Notes and Observation Diaries 2013-2017

Creator

Anttila, Anna (City of Helsinki)

Study number / PID

FSD3226 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3226 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3226 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Enhancing Leisure Time Activities

This data series contains the results of the development and research project 'Good Leisure Time' by Helsinki City Youth Department. 'Good Leisure Time' is one of the priority projects funded by Helsinki City Council to battle the marginalisation of youth. Twelve lower secondary school classes with an approximate total of 170 pupils aged 13-16 participated in the study in 2013-2017. The classes were divided into six target and six control group classes. The target classes had an assigned youth worker whose role was to support the pupils in finding a hobby or a leisure time activity. The...

Abstract

The data comprise diaries of youth workers and interviews of youth workers and teachers conducted as part of a research project entitled Good Leisure Time. The data were collected in five different schools in a town in Southern Finland. Each studied class had a youth worker of their own for the duration of lower secondary school. The role of the youth worker was to support the pupils in finding a hobby or a leisure time activity. The youth workers and teachers discussed how the project had gone, what effect the support from a youth worker had had on pupils' activities and habits, and what the cooperation of youth workers and schools could offer in the future. The data consist of two interviews and four diaries of youth workers and 12 interviews of teachers. In addition to the interviews and diaries, the data contain the outcomes of researcher workshops organised for the pupils. In the workshops, the participants thought about what they would do on a perfect day, what they had learned on the seventh grade, what advice they would give to a sixth grader, which websites were meaningful for them and which places they would like to visit. This dataset is only available in Finnish.

Social sciencesCompulsory and pre-school educationYouthLeisure, tourism and sport

ClubsHobbiesLeisure time activitiesSchoolchildrenSchoolteachersYouthYouth clubsYouth workYouth workers

Data collection period

2013 - 2016

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Event/Process/Activity

Universe

Teachers and pupils in the lower secondary schools that participated in the study, as well as the youth workers who participated in the project

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Self-administered writings and/or diaries

Summary

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

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

Anttila, Anna (2014) "What difference does it make if we are online or face to face?!" - Blog 9.6.2014 - National Centre of Expertise for Digital Youth Work in Finland Verke. https://www.verke.org/blog/what-difference-does-it-make-if-we-are-online-or-face-to-face/?lang=en
Anttila, Anna (2018) Verrattain kehittävää, eli nuorisotutkijana tietoperustaisessa nuorisotyön kehittämishankkeessa. Teoksessa Tomi Kiilakoski & Päivi Honkatukia (toim.) Miten tutkia nuoria ja nuorisotyötä? Vastapaino & Nuorisotutkimusseura, 3131-334.
Anttila, Anna (2017) Hyvä vapaa-aika - parasta oppia. Raportti vapaa-ajan tuen vaikutuksista nuorten sosiaalisiin suhteisiin, koulumenestykseen ja peruskoulun jälkeisiin valintoihin. Helsingin kaupungin nuorisoasiainkeskus. http://vapari.munstadi.fi/files/2017/05/Anttila_Anna_Hyva_vapaa_aika_parasta_oppia.pdf
Anttila, Anna (2016) Kahdeksan keinoa tuhota nuoren halu harrastaa. http://www.skolar.fi/kahdeksan-keinoa-tuhota-nuoren-halu-harrastaa/
Anttila, Anna (2015) Vapaa-ajan yhteisöjen ja intressien tärkeys. Teoksessa Jouni Häkli, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & Riikka Korkiamäki (toim.) Myönteinen tunnistaminen. Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, 65-70.
Anttila, Anna (2014) "Olen paratiisissa" - Hyvä vapaa-aika lapsuuden ja aikuisuuden välissä. Nuorten hyvinvointikertomus. http://www.nuortenhyvinvointikertomus.fi/blogi/2014-09/olen-paratiisissa-hyva-vapaa-aika-lapsuuden-ja-aikuisuuden-valissa
Anttila, Anna (2014) Nuorilla oikeus kuulua, loistaa ja voida hyvin. Nuorisotyö 1/2014.
Anttila, Anna (2014) "Mitä välii onks netissä vai face to face?!" - Netti, some ja digitaaliset pelit osana nuorten vapaa-aikaa. Viikon näkökulma 9.6.2014. Verkkonuorisotyön valtakunnallinen kehittämiskeskus Verke. https://www.verke.org/blog/mita-valii-onks-netissa-vai-face-to-face/