Study title

Family, Parenthood, Children’s Well-Being and Risks of Exclusion 2002

Dataset ID Number

FSD2555

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2555

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Forssén, Katja (University of Turku. Department of Social Research)
• Tähtinen, Juhani (University of Turku. Department of Education)
• Broberg, Mari (University of Turku. Department of Education)
• Hakovirta, Mia (University of Turku. Department of Social Research)

Abstract

The data are part of the Academy of Finland research programme "Marginalisation, Inequality and Ethnic Relations in Finland (SYREENI)", and were collected for the subproject "Origins of Exclusion in Early Childhood". The survey explored the external opportunities and internal resources of Finnish families with children under school age.

Questions covered job characteristics, job contract, working hours, and work-life balance. These questions were asked from the respondents who were in employment. The unemployed respondents answered questions about their earlier job, income before unemployment, impact of children on job seeking, impact of unemployment on self and family, and what kind of work they were looking for. Those staying at home to look after children were asked about their previous income, plans for the future family- and workwise, reasons for staying at home, and importance of various factors for returning to work.

Other themes, targeted to all respondents, included household income and expenses, general financial circumstances of the family, division of domestic labour (housework and childcare), family life, child-parent relationship, parenting, leisure time activities and time use, children's physical and mental well-being and development, well-being and success at school, child day care, organised afternoon activities for school children, social networks and social support available to the family, use of and satisfaction with public services (health care, educational services, mental health services).

The survey also explored the importance of work and career, good income, family life, children, hobbies, children, friends, political or voluntary participation and so on to the respondents.

One-parent family and reconstituted family questionnaires contained extra questions targeted specifically to these family types. For instance, there were a number of statements relating to how the respondents perceive single-parenthood, or living in a reconstituted family (where two separate families have joined together), step-parenting, child - step-parent relations and relations between children from different families. Children's relationship with the other biological parent living elsewhere was surveyed for both family types.

Background variables included the respondent's year of birth, gender, marital status, household composition, household type, spouse's year of birth, number of persons in the household, age and gender of the children still at home, municipality size, major region (NUTS2), type of dwelling, housing tenure, dwelling size (square meters and number of rooms), satisfaction with the dwelling and local environment, R's and spouse's basic education, vocational education, occupation, occupational status, socio-economic group and economic activity.

Keywords

children; family influence; family life; household budgets; housing; job characteristics; one-parent families; parental role; stepchildren; unemployment; well-being (society); working conditions

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Children (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Family life and marriage (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Forssén, Katja (University of Turku. Department of Social Research)
• Tähtinen, Juhani (University of Turku. Department of Education)
• Broberg, Mari (University of Turku. Department of Education)
• Hakovirta, Mia (University of Turku. Department of Social Research)

Time Period Covered

2002

Collection Dates

2002-02 – 2002-05

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Family

Universe

Families living in Finland and having a three-, six-, or eight-year-old child at the end of the year 2001 (excluding families not speaking Finnish as their home language)

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

The sample of 4,200 families with a child born in 1993, 1996 or 1998 was randomly selected from the Finnish population register in 2001. The sample included three quotas: 1,200 two-parent families, 1,500 single-parent families and 1,500 reconstituted families. Families who do not have Finnish as their first language were excluded from the sample.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

53.2

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

In the coding of the open-ended occupation variables (q17a ja q17b) the Statistics Finland occupations classification (2001) was used whenever applicable. These variables contain some values which lack value labels, leaving their meaning unclear.

For the socio-economic status variables (q17a_2 ja q17b_2), derived from the open-ended occupation questions, the Statistics Finland socio-economic groups classification (1989) has been used whenever applicable.

The variables where the answers referred to time (minutes, hours, months or years) have been left in the form the respondents entered them in the paper questionnaire.

All information entered for the variable x23_1 has been coded as SYSMIS as there is no information on the values of the variable.

The data were collected using six different questionnaires depending on whether the child was aged three, six or eight and whether the child belonged to a family with two parents/guardians, a single-parent family or a stepfamily.

The variables q66_1 - q66_39 are not disseminated.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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.

Bibliographical Citation

Forssén, Katja (University of Turku) & Tähtinen, Juhani (University of Turku) & Broberg, Mari (University of Turku) & Hakovirta, Mia (University of Turku): Family, Parenthood, Children’s Well-Being and Risks of Exclusion 2002 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-19). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2555

Deposit Requirement

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

Disclaimer

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

Related Publications

Yksinhuoltajuus Suomessa (2009). Toim. Forssén. K., Haataja, A. & Hakovirta, M. Väestöntutkimuslaitoksen julkaisusarja D 50. Helsinki.

Tähtinen, J. & Broberg, M. & Forssén, K. & Hakovirta, M. (2004). Family Resources as Positive Factors and Risk Factors for Young Children´s Well-being. In Puuronen, V., Häkkinen, A., Pylkkänen, A., Sandlund, T. & Toivanen, R. (eds.) New Challenges for the Welfare Society. University of Joensuu. Publications of Karelian Institute. Yliopistopaino. Joensuu, 257-274.

Tähtinen, J. & Broberg, M. (2004). Pienten lasten hyvinvointi ja perheen voimavarat. Kasvatustieteen päivien 2003 julkaisu. Mietola, R. & Outinen, H. (toim.) Helsingin yliopiston kasvatustieteen laitos. Helsinki.

Tähtinen, J. (2003). Pienten lasten perheiden vuorovaikutus ja yleinen toimintakykyisyys 2000-luvun alun Suomessa. Julkaisussa Heidi Sinervaara-Niskanen & Raimo Ojala (toim.) Kasvatuksen yhteisöt - uupumusta, häirintää vai yhteisöllistä kasvua? Lapin yliopiston kasvatustieteellisiä julkaisuja 3.

Hakovirta, M. & Broberg, M. (2007). Parenting from a Distance: Factors Connected to the Contact between Children and a Non-resident Parent. Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, Vol. 27, 19-33.

Hakovirta, M. (2006). Yksinhuoltajaäitien työllisyys, toimeentulo ja työmarkkinavalinnat. Väestöntutkimuksen julkaisusarja D45/2006. Helsinki.

Forssén, K. & Laine, K. & Tähtinen, J. (2002). Hyvinvoinnin tekijät ja uhat lapsuudessa. Teoksessa: Juhila, K. & Forsberg, H. & Roivainen, I. (toim.). Marginaalit ja sosiaalityö. Sosiaalityön vuosikirja, 81-104.

Broberg, Mari (2010). Uusperheen voimavarat ja lasten hyvinvointi. Helsinki: Väestöliitto. Väestöntutkimuslaitoksen julkaisusarja; D 52/2010.

Broberg, M. & Forssén, K. & Hakovirta, M. & Laukkanen, A-M. & Tähtinen, J. (2002). Lapsiperheiden ja lasten hyvinvointi Halisten ja Kohmon lähiöissä. Itä-Turku-julkaisut nro 7. Turku.

Broberg, M. & Tähtinen, J. (2004). Well-being, Family Functioning and Interaction in Finnish Stepfamilies [verkkodokumentti]. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003406.htm [viitattu 4.11.2010]

Broberg, M. & Tähtinen, J. (2009). Perheen toimivuus ja vanhemmuus yksinhuoltajaperheissä. Teoksessa K. Forssén, A. Haataja & M. Hakovirta (toim.) Yksinhuoltajuus Suomessa. Väestöntutkimuslaitoksen julkaisusarja D 50. Helsinki, 154-169.

Broberg, M. & Hakovirta, M. (2005). Lapsen ja etävanhemman tapaaminen yksinhuoltaja- ja uusperheissä. Janus. Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti, Vol. 12, 137-153.

Broberg, M. & Hakovirta, M. (2009). Isät ja lasten hyvinvointi eron jälkeen. Teoksessa A. Kääriäinen, J. Hämäläinen & P. Pölkki (toim.) Ero, vanhemmuus ja tukeminen. Lastensuojelun keskusliitto. Helsinki, 123-144.

Broberg, M. & Hakovirta, M. (2009). Lapsistaan erillään asuvana isänä eron jälkeen. Teoksessa K. Forssén, A. Haataja & M. Hakovirta (toim.) Yksinhuoltajuus Suomessa. Väestöntutkimuslaitoksen julkaisusarja D 50. Helsinki, 186-200.

Broberg, M. (2003). Uusperheen vanhempien kokemuksia perheensä vuorovaikutussuhteiden toimivuudesta. Kasvatuksen yhteisöt - uupumusta, häirintää vai yhteisöllistä kasvua? Kasvatustieteen päivien 2002 julkaisu. Sinevaara-Niskanen, H. & Rajala, R. (toim.) Lapin yliopiston kasvatustieteellisiä julkaisuja 3. Rovaniemi 2003.

Partanen-Vainio, Marija (2015). Vanhempien asenteita ja arvoja perheen arjen järjestelyssä sekä kasvatuskäsityksiä kotikasvatuksessa. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän avoin yliopisto. Varhaiskasvatustieteen kandidaatintutkielma.

Broberg, Mari (2012). Young children's well-being in Finnish stepfamilies. Early Child Development and Care, Vol. 182, 401-405.

Siipola, A.-K. (2016). Vanhemman lämpimän tunneilmaisun ja kontrolloivuuden yhteydet lapsen sosiaalisiin ongelmiin. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Yhteiskunta- ja kulttuuritieteiden yksikkö. Kandidaatintutkielma