Study title

Religion and Religiousness in Russia 1993

Dataset ID Number

FSD1093

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1093
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1093

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Kääriäinen, Kimmo (Church Research Institute)
• Andreenkov, Vladimir (The Russian Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

The survey studied the concepts of religion, morals, and values in Russia in the beginning of the 1990s. The respondents were asked how important in life they considered work, family, friends or acquaintances, leisure, politics and religion. They were also asked which groups and associations they belonged to, in which of them they are engaged in voluntary work, and what kind of people they would not have as their neighbours. In addition, they were asked about their general state of health, how they felt about life as a whole, and how happy or unhappy they felt. The respondents were also asked what economical and social factors were the most important to them at work. The respondents were also asked what role owners, the state, and employees should have in the ownership of an enterprise and in choosing management.

Several questions dealt with morals and the meaning of life, the respondents' religiosity, attendance of church services, and their attitude towards the church. In addition, the respondents were asked about their family relations, the meaning of family in their lives, and whether the respondents had the same attitude towards religion, morals, politics, and sexuality as their spouse and parents. Furthermore, the respondents were asked in view of a good marriage, how important they felt faithfulness, material goods, belonging to the same social stratum, mutual respect, same political views, sexual satisfaction, children, and sharing the chores at home.

Relating to children, the respondents were asked the actual and desired number of children in the family, attitudes towards child-rearing, conceptions of the relationship between parents and children, and what kind of values should parents instill in their children. Furthermore, the respondents were asked about their attitudes towards working mothers and the roles of spouses in marriage. There were several questions about attitudes towards politics and political participation. Moreover, the respondents were asked about their conceptions of the country's future and social development. They were also asked how much they trust various institutions in society: the church, armed forces, judicial system, press, trade unions, and the political system as a whole. On the other hand, the respondents were asked how they supported various social movements, like environmental movement, movement against nuclear energy, and women's movement. In relation to their moral conceptions, the respondents were asked about several things, for instance, about using public transport without a ticket, using drugs, prostitution, suicide, and euthanasia. The respondents' conceptions about citizens of various countries were also asked about.

Background variables included the respondent's sex, age, education, profession, place of residence in childhood, size of family, income, nationality of the respondent and other family members, membership in a political party, and political views.

Keywords

family life; gender role; happiness; moral concepts; occupational life; political attitudes; political movements; quality of life; religious attendance; religious beliefs

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Religion and values (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Religion and Religiousness in Russia

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Institut sravnitel'nyh social'nyh issledovanij

Data Producers

• Church Research Institute

Time Period Covered

1993

Collection Dates

1993-03 – 1993-04

Nation

Russia

Geographical Coverage

Russia

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Persons over 18 years of age living in the area of the Russian Federation

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Cluster

Multistage cluster sampling.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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Number of Cases and Variables

433 variables and 1491 cases.

Data Version

3.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

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Bibliographical Citation

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (Church Research Institute) & Andreenkov, Vladimir (The Russian Academy of Sciences): Religion and Religiousness in Russia 1993 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2018-07-31). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1093

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Other Material

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Sample description: paper copy in English

Related Publications

Starye cerkvi, novye verujushchie: religija v massovom soznanii postsovetskoj Rossii (2000). Red. Kimmo Kaariainen & Dmitri Furman. Moskva - Sankt-Peterburg.

Religious Transition in Russia (2000). Ed. Matti Kotiranta. Helsinki. Kikimora Publications; B:15.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo & Furman, Dmitri (1997). Verujushchie, ateisty i prochie: evoljucija rossijskoj religioznosti. Voprosy filosofii, 1997:6.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo & Furman, Dmitri (1999). Ljudi na tajushcheij l'dine. Voprosy filosofii, 1999:1

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1995). Die Ethik-Diskussion in Russland. Berichte des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, 56/1995. Köln.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1995). Religiosität in Russland. Aktuelle Analysen, 26/1995. Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien. Köln.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1996). Massovoe soznanie v periode transformacii. Transformacionnye processy v Rossii i vostochnoj Evrope i ih otrazhenie v massovom soznanii. RNISiNP. Moskva.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1997). Moral crisis or immoral society: Russian values after the collapse of communism. Berichte des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, 26/1997.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1998). Religion in Russia after the collapse of communism. Lewiston (N.Y.): Mellen Press

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1999). Religion and the Russian elite. In: Religion and social transition (ed. Eila Helander). Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Publications of the Department of Practical Theology; 95.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (1999). Religiousness in Russia after the collapse of communism. Social Compass 46(1), 1999.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (2000). Is a shared religion possible in Russia? - In: Beyond the mainstream: the emergence of religious pluralism in Finland, Estonia and Russia (ed. Jeffry Kapplan). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (2002). Uskonto Venäjällä - tulevaisuutta menneisyydestä. Futura 3/2001: 68-74.

Kääriäinen, Kimmo (2004). Ateismin jälkeen. Uskonnollisuus Venäjällä. Jyväskylä: Gummerus. Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisuja; 86.