Aineiston nimi

Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland 2007-2016

Aineistonumero

FSD3206

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3206

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry
• Union of Freethinkers of Finland

Sisällön kuvaus

The data contain information about persons who have resigned from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church via web service Eroakirkosta.fi in 2007-2016. Variables included in the data are date of resignation, type of resignation announcement (e-mail, paper form, direct announcement via web form), municipality of residence, gender, age at the time of resignation (categorised), church, and language.

Asiasanat

christianity; church; church and state; religious affiliation; religious behaviour; religious freedom; religious institutions

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Social change (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Religion and values (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry

Ajallinen kattavuus

2007 – 2016

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2007-01-01 – 2016-12-31

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Persons resigned from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2007-2016

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The data include all resignations made via the Eroakirkosta.fi web service in 2007-2016.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Programming script

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: englanti ja suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

10 muuttujaa ja 553850 havaintoa.

Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3236 Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2010-2017

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Resignation practices vary between Local Register Offices (maistraatit) and depending on time of resignation. Persons who are of age (18) have three different options for resignation with the help of the Eroakirkosta.fi service (see variable q2):

1 'E-mail': The Local Register Office did not accept a resignation announcement that was sent via the web form, but accepted a resignation announcement sent via e-mail by the resignee. The resignee used an e-mail template available via Eroakirkosta.fi. In practice, some resignees do not do this right away, but send the resignation announcement at a later time.

2 'Paper form': The Local Register Office did not accept electronic resignation at all. For these cases, the Eroakirkosta.fi service has a paper form that the resignee can print out, fill, and deliver to the Local Register Office.

3 'Direct announcement via web form': The Local Register Office accepted the resignation announcement directly via Eroakirkosta.fi's web form.

Persons under the age of 18 cannot resign from church electronically; they can only resign via the paper form and need approval from their parents.

In the age variable, persons who are 18 years of age were categorised in their own category because they constitute a significant share of resignees (6.6%). In some analyses (e.g. analysis of spikes in resignation announcements), there might be reason to exclude these cases. Most of the time, the reason for their resignation is that once they turn 18 years old, they are able to resign on their own.

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

Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry & Union of Freethinkers of Finland: Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland 2007-2016 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2018-04-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3206

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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