Aineiston nimi

Women and War 1987-1988

Aineistonumero

FSD2551

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2551

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Haavio-Mannila, Elina (University of Helsinki. Department of Sociology)
• Martha Organization
• National Board of Antiquities

Sisällön kuvaus

The dataset focuses on Finnish women's experiences and memories of their everyday life during the Winter War (1939-1940) and the Continuation War (1941-1944), that is, during the World War II. The data contain the responses of 949 Finnish women to a postal questionnaire with open-ended questions.

In addition to background information, there were questions on working life, health care, voluntary work and voluntary organisations, education, household tasks, family and friends, spare time, atmosphere in Finland during the wars, evacuation and evacuees, and attitudes to war. The responses were largely narrative, with the respondents telling about their own wartime experiences and about the wartime in general.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Asiasanat

civilians; evacuees; everyday life; history; labour and employment; war; war veterans; war victims; women; women's organizations; women's role

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Humanities (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Agriculture and rural industry (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Working conditions (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Conflict, security and peace (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Gender and gender roles (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• University of Helsinki. Department of Sociology
• National Board of Antiquities

Ajallinen kattavuus

1939-11-30 – 1944-09-19

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

1987 – 1988

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havainto/aineistoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Finnish women who were born before the year 1924 and who had experienced the Winter War and the Continuation War

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Havainto/aineistoyksiköiden valinta

Non-probability: Availability

Probability

The data were collected through a postal questionnaire. Information on potential participants was received via the Martha Organization (70%), Rural Women's Advisory Organisation (5%) and Social Democratic Women's Union (6%). A random sample was also drawn from the Population Register. Out of all responses, 17% were from people in the random sample.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Self-administered writings and/or diaries

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Unstructured questionnaire

Data collection guidelines: Self-administered writings guide

Aineiston määrä

949 responses to the questionnaire compiled in 43 TXT files and HTML files.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

2.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Hand-written responses were transcribed into a digital format during the research project. Lengths of the responses vary greatly from single words to short biographies.

Responses of 209 respondents who had worked in medical care during the wars are not included in the archived 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

Haavio-Mannila, Elina (University of Helsinki) & Martha Organization & National Board of Antiquities: Women and War 1987-1988 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2011-03-23). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2551

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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

Varaumat

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

Julkaisut aineistosta

Raitis, Riikka & Haavio-Mannila, Elina (1993). Naisten aseet. Suomalaisena naisena talvi- ja jatkosodassa. Juva: WSOY.

Halonen, Susanna (2021) "Kyllä työ tekijänsä neuvoi" - Pohjoiskarjalaisten naisten kokemuksia miesten töiden tekemisestä talvi- ja jatkosodassa 1939-1944. Pro gradu -tutkielma. Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos, Itä-Suomen yliopisto. http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uef-20211501

Väyrynen, T. (2023, forthcoming). War agency in women's auxiliary military organizations: The case of Lotta Svärd in Finland. International Feminist Journal of Politics. DOI 10.1080/14616742.2022.2135559