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Study title

Well-Being of LGBTIQ Youth 2013

Creator

Alanko, Katarina (Finnish Youth Research Society. Finnish Youth Research Network)

Study number / PID

FSD2924 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2924 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2924 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

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Abstract

The Well-Being of LGBTIQ Youth survey, conducted jointly by Finnish Youth Research Society and Seta - LGBTI Rights in Finland, charted the well-being of young Finnish lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and intersex and queer people. The extensive survey was part of the Hyvinvoiva sateenkaarinuori project (Wellbeing of LGBTIQ Youth), funded by the Child and Youth Policy Programme of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Topics studied included gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation and behaviour, relationships, health, experiences of discrimination and violence, and attitudes in the society. The respondents were able to explain their responses in more detail with open-ended responses. The survey was the first survey in Finland to chart sexual orientation and gender diversity of young people. The respondents were asked about their gender expression and gender identity. Questions investigated whether the respondents identified as a girl/woman, boy/man, or other, what they thought their gender expression was like (masculine, feminine or neither), how they thought others viewed their gender expression, what sex they had been assigned at birth, whether they had any variations of sex development, whether they identified as a trans person, and which categories, if any, best described them (e.g. transgender, transwoman/man, queer or genderblender, cross-dresser). One topic charted intersex traits and identity, with questions about, for instance, perception of own gender, age when diagnosed with an intersex condition, reactions/attitudes of people to the respondent's intersex identity, and support needed and received. With regard to transvestism/cross-dressing, the respondents were asked, among others, the frequency of the need to dress like the other gender, the age when first broke norms relating to dressing, and with whom had first talked about their possible cross-dresser identity. Relating to experiences of being a trans person, questions...
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Topics

Social sciencesGender and gender rolesYouthMinoritiesSocial behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

BisexualityDiscriminationDiscrimination against homosexualsGender identityGender minoritiesHealthHomosexualityMental healthSexual behaviourSexual healthSexual identitySexual minorities
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Methodology

Data collection period

04/2013 - 06/2013

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Finnish gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transpeople, intersex and queer people over 15 years of age

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2014

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

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