DDI description: Pets as Family Members 2014-2015 DDI-kuvailu: Eläin perheenjäsenenä 2014-2015 3139 Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive 1.0.0 Pets as Family Members 2014-2015 [metadata]. Metadata version 1.0.0 (2017-05-22). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [producer and distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3139; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3139 FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records), joiden tekijä on Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive), on lisensoitu Creative Commons 1.0 Yleismaailmallinen (CC0 1.0) -lisenssillä. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) by Suomen yhteiskuntatieteellinen tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) are licensed under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license. FSD:n aineistokuvailut (FSD metadata records) av Finlands samhällsvetenskapliga dataarkiv (Finnish Social Science Data Archive) är licensierade under en Creative Commons 1.0 Universiell (CC0 1.0) licens. Pets as Family Members 2014-2015 Eläin perheenjäsenenä 2014-2015 3139 urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3139 10.60686/t-fsd3139 Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Lauren, Kirsi Niemelä, Reetta Schuurman, Nora Syrjämaa, Taina In accordance with the agreement between FSD and the depositor. Finnish Social Science Data Archive Individual datasets

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 1.0 Finnish Literature Society (SKS) & Lauren, Kirsi (University of Eastern Finland) & Niemelä, Reetta & Schuurman, Nora (University of Eastern Finland) & Syrjämaa, Taina (University of Turku): Pets as Family Members 2014-2015 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2017-05-22). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3139; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3139 animals household pets dogs domestic animals oral history Social sciences Agriculture and forestry Social behaviour and attitudes Plants and animals

This dataset contains written responses about Finnish people's experiences with pets in childhood and in the present. Most of the memories concern cats and dogs, but stories about other pets are included as well.

The respondents wrote about the role of the pet in the family and interaction with the pet, for instance. They also wrote about having to give up the pet or put it down as well as emotions relating to these situations. Many respondents reminisced pets in childhood homes and how their attitudes towards pets had changed over decades.

The dataset comprises 72 responses. Some respondents also attached pictures of their pets. The data collection was organised by the Academy of Finland's research project "Animal Agency in Human Society: Finnish Perspectives, 1890 - 2040", Human-Animal Studies network at the University of Eastern Finland, author Reetta Niemelä, and Finnish Literature Society.

Background information includes age, gender, occupation and place of residence. The data were organised into an easy to use html version at FSD.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

 Finland Finland Individual Individual Event/Process/Activity EventOrProcessOrActivity Media unit: Text MediaUnit.Text Finnish people with memories about pets Qualitative Cross-section CrossSection Finnish Literature Society Non-probability: Availability Nonprobability.Availability

An invitation for participating in the study was published on the website of the Finnish Literature Society. Responses could be sent either by e-mail, mail, or a web form on the site.

 Self-administered writings and/or diaries: E-mail SelfAdministeredWritingsAndDiaries.Email Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper SelfAdministeredWritingsAndDiaries.Paper Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Web-based SelfAdministeredWritingsAndDiaries.WebBased Data collection guidelines: Self-administered writings guide DataCollectionGuidelines.SelfAdministeredWritingsGuide Detailed and specific data description in Finnish and English. The data are checked and processed in detail. If necessary, the data are anonymised. Finnish Social Science Data Archive 72 responses in txt, pdf and html formats. The length of the responses varies from a couple of sentences to 19 pages. The data have been archived in their entirety (186 responses) in the Finnish Literature Society's folklore archives. The data may contain identifiers that have not been anonymised (e.g. person names, information on place of residence, names of work places and such). When publishing quotations from the data, users need to consider very carefully in each specific case what information needs to be removed or altered according to research ethical guidelines. The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses. 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. Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi. The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data. Identifiers were removed from responses (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, references to identifiable third persons). In addition, human faces were blurred in photographs. Anonymised parts were marked with [square brackets] (or [[double square brackets]] in scanned texts). Responses sent via e-mail or the web form were saved as txt files. Responses sent via mail were saved as pdf files. Pictures attached to the responses were saved as separate files and they are referred to in the texts with the reference "Liite: daF3139_xx_kuva.jpg". These references also include any picture captions. Jokinen, Jenni (2020). Lemmikkieläimet, arki ja hyvinvointi: Lemmikkieläinten hyvinvointivaikutukset omistajiensa elämään. Tampereen yliopisto: Yhteiskuntatutkimuksen pro gradu -tutkielma. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004294485 Lemmikkieläimet, arki ja hyvinvointi: Lemmikkieläinten hyvinvointivaikutukset omistajiensa elämään URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004294485 Kärkkäinen, Suvi-Katariina (2019). Eläimet ihmisten kasvattajina. Itä-Suomen yliopisto: Kasvatustieteiden pro gradu -tutkielma. urn_nbn_fi_uef-20191478 Eläimet ihmisten kasvattajina urn:nbn:fi:uef-20191478 Priiki, Katri (2024). Toisenlajisten kanssa. Viittaukset ihmiseen ja lemmikkiin yhdessä toimivana parina. Puhe ja kieli, 44:2, 49-66. Toisenlajisten kanssa. Viittaukset ihmiseen ja lemmikkiin yhdessä toimivana parina Priiki, Katri 2023. Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish. Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 14(3), 107-136. Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish 10.12697/jeful.2023.14.3.04 Rosenberg, Mikko (2023) Lemmikkirakkautta monilajisissa kodeissa ihmisten kertomana. Teoksessa Pirjo Suvilehto, Pauliina Rautio & Veli-Matti Värri (toim.) Nuorten luonto eläimineen. Kohti monilajista nuorisotutkimusta. Nuorisotutkimusseura/Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, julkaisuja 246. s. 85 - 108. Lemmikkirakkautta monilajisissa kodeissa ihmisten kertomana