Study title

Ruukki Resident Attitudes to Karelians and Asylum Seekers 1994

Dataset ID Number

FSD2564

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2564
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2564

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Weissenfelt, Kerttu (University of Lapland. Department of Social Work)

Abstract

The survey studied the attitudes of small municipality inhabitants to people from other cultures. Ruukki municipality (Finland) was selected for the study because it had received asylum seekers from the year 1993 onwards and, after the Second World War, had received evacuees from the region of Karelia which Finland had lost to the Soviet Union in the war.

Questions covered, for instance, whether the respondents had ever lived abroad, their and other people's attitudes towards asylum seekers, interaction with asylum seekers, knowledge of and interest in the issue, migration from Finland to other countries in the 1960s, acceptable reasons for seeking asylum, and knowledge of and attitudes to the Karelian evacuation. Views on the municipality and the impact of people moving in were surveyed. Further questions measured the degree of community solidarity and authoritarian personality.

Background variables included the respondent's age, gender, marital status, number of children, whether R had been born in Ruukki and if not, number of years of residence, basic and vocational education, job contract, language skills, R's and spouse's economic activity, and whether R or any other member of the family had been a Karelian evacuee.

Keywords

asylum seekers; attitudes; evacuees; personality traits; right to political asylum

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social welfare policy (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

• Weissenfelt, Kerttu (University of Lapland. Department of Social Work)

Time Period Covered

1994

Collection Dates

1994-09 – 1994-11-24

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Ruukki

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

People born before the year 1980 living in the municipality of Ruukki

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Every 10th inhabitant of Ruukki born before 1980 was selected to the study. The total sample consisted of 406 persons. The survey was posted to the sampled persons in the autumn of 1994. Some time later, an announcement of the survey was published in the local newspaper as a reminder. Altogether, 244 adequately filled-in questionnaires were returned. The youngest respondent was 14 years old, the oldest 83.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

60

Data File Language

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Data Version

2.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

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Bibliographical Citation

Weissenfelt, Kerttu (University of Lapland): Ruukki Resident Attitudes to Karelians and Asylum Seekers 1994 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-20). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2564

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Disclaimer

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Related Publications

Weissenfelt, Kerttu (2007). Me ja muualta tulleet. Ruukkilaisten asennoituminen karjalaisiin ja turvapaikanhakijoihin. Rovaniemi: Lapin yliopisto. Acta Universitatis Lapponiensis 125.