Summary information

Study title

Culture and Leisure in Finland 2007

Creator

Purhonen, Semi (University of Helsinki. Department of Social Policy)
Rahkonen, Keijo (University of Helsinki. Department of Social Policy)

Study number / PID

FSD2953 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2953 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2953 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study extensively charted the culture and leisure time activities of Finnish people. The respondents were asked how often they watched different television channels, how often they watched television and what kind of programmes they watched. Relating to cinema, questions investigated the preferred genres and interest in the movies of certain directors. With regard to reading, the respondents were asked how often they read various newspapers and magazines, what types of literature they read, which books they would be interested in reading, and how many books they had read in their leisure time in the previous 12 months. Questions about music surveyed opinions on different music genres, whether the respondents had heard certain songs and whether they liked them, and which radio channels they listened to. Concerning visual arts, questions presented surveyed which art movements the respondents liked the most and which the least, and whether they knew and liked the works of certain artists. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with statements relating to culture (e.g. "I would have to know more about art and classical music to fully enjoy them"). With regard to culture and language-related hobbies, questions focused on foreign language skills, lessons or studies taken in different arts, and parents' interest in different hobbies (reading, sports, gardening) in the respondents' childhood. Internet use was charted with questions about the frequency, location and purpose of use. Leisure time and holidays were queried about by asking how often the respondents went to different events and places (e.g. cinema, rock concerts, art galleries), whether they had attended popular Finnish festivals and events in the previous 12 months, and what kinds of holidays they had been on and which of them they had liked. Relating to sports, the respondents were asked whether they exercised or did sports, how often they exercised, what kind of sports they did, and which...
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Methodology

Data collection period

09/10/2007 - 10/12/2007

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 18-74 permanently residing in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2014

Terms of data access

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

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