Aineiston nimi

Aged Canadian Finns 2004

Aineistonumero

FSD2408

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2408
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2408

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Lumme-Sandt, Kirsi (University of Tampere. Tampere School of Public Health)

Sisällön kuvaus

The material is part of the research project on ageing and immigration, conducted in the University of Tampere. Some questionnaire questions are the same as in the Finnish GOAL (Good Ageing in Lahti region; Ikihyvä in Finnish) survey targeted at people aged over 50 years.

First, the respondents' demographics were charted in the questionnaire. Their age, marital status, country of birth, education, occupation, current employment status, housing history, time spent in Canada, health, disabilities, ability to live actively and use of health care services were queried.

Social relationships were explored through asking the respondents how many children, sisters and brothers they had and where they lived. They were also asked about their ways of being in contact with their friends and relatives. Offering and receiving help were investigated by asking whether the respondents took care of a chronically ill, aged, or disabled person, who the respondents received help from, what kind of help the respondents received and how often, and who they offered help to.

Experiences of ageing were probed by asking the respondents for example whether they felt themselves younger or older than they really were, whether they had experienced their age as an advantage or drawback, whether they considered ageing hard, whether they felt their lives lacked joy, whether they were afraid of dementia, whether they considered religion important, whether they felt themselves old or lonely, and whether they felt solidarity with previous and following generations. The respondents gave their views on retiring and on worries related to ageing. In addition, they were queried whether they thought to be able to perform their daily tasks after five years, and how they would spend their retirement years if they were able to select freely.

Finally, the respondents answered various questions on Finnishness, hobbies, dreams, worries, joys, and sorrows.

Background variables included the respondent's age, gender, field of education and marital status.

Asiasanat

Finnishness; ageing; care of the elderly; health; interpersonal relations; loneliness; minority groups; old age; social problems

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• General health and well-being (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Elderly (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Lumme-Sandt, Kirsi (University of Tampere. Tampere School of Public Health)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2004

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2004-05-01 – 2004-05-26

Maa

Canada

Kohdealue

Canada

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Finnish-born people aged over 50 living in Canada

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Simple random

The questionnaires were sent to a sample of 200 people randomly selected from the subscriber register of a local Finnish newspaper, West Coast News. If a person receiving the questionnaire was not aged over 50, they were asked to forward it to a Canadian-Finn who was. 101 people responded to the survey.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

50.5

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

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Datan versio

1.1

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The dataset does not contain the open-ended responses to multiple-choice questions, nor the responses to questions 18, 19, 60, 65, 66 and 70.

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

Lumme-Sandt, Kirsi (University of Tampere): Aged Canadian Finns 2004 [dataset]. Data version 1.1 (2013-10-10). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2408; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2408

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

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