Aineiston nimi

Family Barometer 2003: Couple Relationships under Strain

Aineistonumero

FSD2130

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2130

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Paajanen, Pirjo (Finnish Family Federation. Population Research Institute)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey focused on couple relationships, marriage, and divorce. Views were probed on how important certain factors were to a good couple relationship (e.g. spouses have own friends and hobbies, spouses share many hobbies, good sex, mutual respect). The respondents were also asked whether they agreed with a number of statements relating to couple relationships, and how important certain things (e.g. children, job, hobbies) were to them. One question explored opinions on whether both spouses should participate equally in children's hobbies, household chores, taking care of elderly relatives, etc. The respondents' satisfaction with their current relationship, job, parenthood, financial situation, general health, sex life, etc. were charted. They were asked whom they had turned to when experiencing difficulties in the couple relationship, how often they had had conflicts with their spouse, and in what way these conflicts had been resolved.

Satisfaction with different aspects of the relationship was charted. The respondents still married to their first spouse were asked whether they had ever considered divorce, and the divorced ones were asked whether both spouses had wanted to divorce. Views were probed on what factors the respondents considered might be or had been important for getting divorced (e.g. unfaithfulness, sexual problems, nagging, childlessness, unrealistic expectations, falling in love with someone else). The divorced respondents were asked whether things had improved or got worse after the divorce (e.g. relations with children, friends, ex-spouse or parents, happiness, housing, leisure time), and whether they regretted having got divorced. The respondents still married to their first spouse were asked what had been the most important reasons for staying in the relationship.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, how many months had known spouse before getting married, whether cohabited with spouse before marriage and for how long, spouse's year of birth, financial situation of the household in the past two years, R's and spouse's basic education, vocational education, and economic activity, R's current marital status, type of neighbourhood, number and ages of children from the marriage in question. Some variables contained information on R's parents. A distinguishing variable can be used to separate the two respondent groups (the respondents still married to the person they had married in 1995 and the respondents no longer married to the person they had married in 1995).

Asiasanat

divorce; interpersonal conflict; marriage; marriage dissolution; partnerships (personal); satisfaction

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Family life and marriage (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Family Barometers

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Paajanen, Pirjo (Finnish Family Federation. Population Research Institute)

Tuottajat

• Finnish Family Federation. Population Research Institute

Ajallinen kattavuus

1995 – 2003

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2003-02 – 2003-03

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Family

Perusjoukko/otos

People resident in Finland, aged 25-50, who had married for the first time in 1995 (poislukien the Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Stratified

A sample of 3000 persons born 1953 or later, and married for the first time in 1995, was drawn from the population register of Finland. The sample consisted of two groups, each comprising 1500 persons: 1) people who were still married to the same person they married in 1995, and 2) people who were divorced from the person they married in 1995.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

For the still married 65.5, and for the divorced 50.6

Datatiedostojen kieli

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Datan versio

2.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Two separate questionnares were used: one for the persons who were still married and another for the persons who were no longer married to the person they had married in 1995. It is possible to separate the two respondent groups (the still married and divorced) by using a distinguishing variable included in the data.

Responses to open-ended questions are not included in the data

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Paajanen, Pirjo (Finnish Family Federation): Family Barometer 2003: Couple Relationships under Strain [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-19). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2130

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Erityisehdot

Users of the data shall send Väestöliitto [Family Federation of Finland] a copy of all research publications based on or using the data. Publications shall be sent to the mail address: Väestöliitto, Väestöntutkimuslaitos, PL 849, 00101 HELSINKI, FINLAND.

Varaumat

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