Aineiston nimi

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

Aineistonumero

FSD3236

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3236
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3236

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry
• Tampereen vapaa-ajattelijat ry

Sisällön kuvaus

The data consist of reasons for leaving church given by 1,005 people who had quit the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church on the eroakirkosta.fi online service.

The eroakirkosta.fi service allows users the possibility to state their reason(s) for leaving the church. The reason for leaving is asked after the resignation form has been submitted.

Background information includes age and gender.

This dataset is only available in Finnish and Swedish, depending on the respondent's mother tongue.

Asiasanat

church; religion; religious affiliation; religious behaviour; religious beliefs; religious institutions; values

Tieteenala/Aihealue

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

Sarja

Reasons for Resigning from Church

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

2010-08 – 2017-12

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2010-08 – 2017-12

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havainto/aineistoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People who had quit the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church on eroakirkosta.fi

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Havainto/aineistoyksiköiden valinta

Probability: Systematic random

The archived dataset was sampled from the extensive data of over 100,000 resignation forms. Out of all the feedback left between 2010 and 2017, blank responses and responses consisting, for instance, of only a single letter were removed before sampling. The remaining responses were sorted by time and date, and every 121st response was selected.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Programming script

Data collection guidelines: Secondary data collection guide

Aineiston määrä

1,005 reasons for quitting church in Finnish or Swedish in a single TXT file.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3206 Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland 2007-2016

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

All direct and indirect identifiers, including smaller places of residence, relating to the respondent or other private persons were removed from the data. The exact date of resignation was also removed. Anonymised sections are marked with square brackets.

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 & Tampereen vapaa-ajattelijat ry: Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2010-2017 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2018-09-21). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3236

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

Äystö, Tuomas & Koivula, Aki & Wessman, Anna & Kyyrö, Jere & Hjelm, Titus (2022). Miksi suomalaiset eroavat evankelis-luterilaisesta kirkosta? Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 87 (2022):2, s. 129-140.