Summary information

Study title

Attitudes towards Corporal Punishment of Children in Finland: Summer 2006

Creator

Sariola, Heikki (Central Union for Child Welfare)

Study number / PID

FSD3154 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3154 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3154 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Attitudes towards Corporal Punishment of Children in Finland

Central Union for Child Welfare has charted corporal punishment against children and the attitudes towards it in Finland since the 1980s. Survey questions in the archived datasets include parents' self-reported use of corporal punishment against children. The FSD collections cover data from 2004.

Abstract

The data are part of Central Union for Child Welfare study that investigates the use of corporal punishment in upbringing and attitudes towards it in Finland. Face-to-face interviews were carried out in the summer of 2006 as part of an Omnibus study monthly conducted by Taloustutkimus. The respondents were asked whether they thought corporal punishment was acceptable, at least in exceptional circumstances. The respondents who were planning to have children were asked whether they thought they would use corporal punishment in raising them. The respondents who had children under 18 in the household were asked whether they had used different forms of corporal punishment (pulling hair, slapping, pinching etc.). The respondents' views on actions that count as corporal punishment or assault or neither were investigated. Other questions focused on whether the respondents had been physically punished by their parents as children, how the respondents would act if they noticed someone in their social network using corporal punishment against children, and whether they had noticed any news about or campaigns against corporal punishment of children in the media. Background variables included, among others, the respondent's gender, age, municipality of residence, employment status, marital status, household composition, level of education, number of inhabitants in the municipality of residence, municipality type, Internet use, and number and ages of children living in the household.

Social sciencesChildrenSocial behaviour and attitudes

Child abuseChild safetyChild protectionChildrenCorporal punishmentDomestic violenceParent attitudeParental roleParents

Data collection period

06/2006

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

People aged 15-79 living in Finland

Excludes: the Åland Islands

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2017

Terms of data access

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

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