Study title

Religion and Religiousness in Russia 1996

Dataset ID Number

FSD1094

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1094

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 middle of the 1990s. The respondents were asked how important in life they consider work, family, friends or acquaintances, leisure, politics, and religion. They were also asked what kind of people they would not have as their neighbours. Furthermore, they were asked to estimate whether people helped each other more or less than they did 10 years ago, whether they were happy with their lives at the moment, 5 years ago and 5 years from now, why there were poor people in the country, and what was the reason for that.

The respondents were asked what economical and social factors were the most important to them at work. They were also asked what role should owners, the state, and employees 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, the attitude 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. On the other hand, the respondents were asked how they support 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, using public transport without a ticket, using drugs, prostitution, suicide, and euthanasia. The respondents were also asked whether they identified themselves as dwellers of their own community, a larger area, members of a nationality, Russia, Europe or the whole world, and how proud they were over being citizens of Russia. A host of questions dealt with economical and political life in Russia, the conceptions of the former Soviet Union, and the future of Russia.

Background variables were 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 R's political views.

Keywords

gender role; happiness; moral concepts; political attitudes; quality of life; religious attendance; religious beliefs; social change; values

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

1996

Collection Dates

1996-03 – 1996-04

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

361 variables and 1664 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 1996 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2018-07-31). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1094

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Related Publications

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 (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.