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New Entrance to Mountain Farming in the Eastern Alps: Actors and their Routes into Agriculture, Motivation, Opportunities and Challenges (SUF edition) New Entrance to Mountain Farming in the Eastern Alps: Actors and their Routes into Agriculture, Motivation, Opportunities and Challenges (SUF edition) doi:10.11587/LCWVFD Konzett, Savina Grüner, Bernhard P 32956 AUSSDAThe Austrian Social Science Data Archive FarmersAgricultural developmentAccess to countrysideMotivationAttitudesIdealismLife stylesFood productionPreservation of buildingsCultural heritageLandscape protectionQuality of lifeWork-life balance Agriculture and rural industryCommunity, urban and rural lifeCultural activities and participationSocial behaviour and attitudesSocial and occupational mobilityWorking conditionsHousing and land use Full edition for scientific use. The aim of this dataset is to outline the results of a mixed-methods research on new entrants to mountain farming conducted in the case study regions Vorarlberg, Tyrol and South Tyrol (Eastern Alps). In a first survey stage, new entrants were identified and their routes into mountain farming as well as the resulting social and spatial impacts were recorded using semi-structured interviews. In the light of a multi-level perspective (MLP), further interviews with experts in local policy, regional planning and agriculture (on local, regional and federal level) provided detailed insights on the challenges and opportunities of new entrants. In a second stage, statistical data on agricultural training (adult education; ger: landwirtschaftliche Fachausbildung) at the agricultural colleges of the study regions and beyond were collected and merged. Both the 32 expert interviews and the 24 interviews with new entrants were recorded, transcribed and analyzed according to the Grounded Theory. Resulting qualitative data is available as interview transcripts and as a codebook. For reasons of research ethics, the data set contains only carefully selected transcripts of expert interviews. In addition to the qualitative and quantitative data outlined above, further information is provided to better understand the findings and data. This includes an anonymization guideline, both interview guidelines, the consent form, hard facts and metadata of all interviews, the current data management plan as well as figures. 2020-10-122021-06-20 AustriaAustriaItaly TyrolEast TyrolVorarlbergMontafonSouth TyrolVinschgau IndividualHousehold The object of study are those people who newly entered mountain agriculture in the case study regions Montafon, East Tyrol and Vinschgau. Thereby, new entrants to mountain farming in the Alps are people of any age and any gender who have a semi-agricultural or non-agricultural background and consciously decide to work in the mountain agriculture – whether for profit or not. This definition includes autochthonous atypical heirs, who start from scratch, as well as complete newcomers with foreign or native background. Family farmers, on the other hand, are not included. The sample was defined by the snowball principle, with the aim of theoretical saturation according to the Grounded Theory. This strategy is particularly effective when the sample is limited, and the group of interest is not clearly visible within the main population. Obviously, such a specific approach certainly did not capture all new entrants to mountain farming. Nevertheless, data saturation was achieved. TextNumericStill image Cross-section Non-probability: Respondent-assisted Interview Semi-structured questionnaire For more Information please visit AUSSDA's web page https://data.aussda.at/oai doi:10.11587/LCWVFD 2023-06-01T10:51:51Z ddi:codebook:2_5