Aineiston nimi

Finnish Expatriates' National Identity and Political Participation 2014

Aineistonumero

FSD3463

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3463
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3463

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Peltoniemi, Johanna (Tampere University)
• Ruostetsaari, Ilkka (Tampere University)

Sisällön kuvaus

The study examined the national identity and political participation of Finns living abroad. The study received funding from the Unit for Democracy, Language Affairs and Fundamental Rights at the Ministry of Justice, the Migration Institute of Finland and the Finnish Club of Tampere.

Questions surveying national identity examined, among others, how long the respondents had lived abroad, their reasons for moving abroad, languages spoken with different people, contacts and visits to Finland, importance of different places (e.g. place of birth, Finland, country of residence, Europe) and the most important characteristics in terms of their identity (e.g. occupation, citizenship, gender, religion, country of residence). Further questions charted the importance of various things when considering who is a Finn (e.g. being a citizen of Finland, having lived in Finland most of one's life, having Finnish heritage), feeling of Finnishness, feelings of national pride in different things (e.g. international political influence, achievements in sports), and things the respondents felt they had had to change or give up when moving abroad (language, cultural traditions, opinions or habits).

Political participation was surveyed with questions about interest in politics, following politics in the media, forms of political participation engaged in (e.g. signing a petition, participating in a demonstration), participation in citizens' initiatives and membership and participation in associations and organisations. A number of questions about voting were asked, such as the most important things affecting the low voter turnout of Finnish expatriates, ways to increase voter turnout, the usefulness of introducing mail and internet voting and a separate constituency for expatriates, frequency of voting in Finnish elections, distance to the closest polling station, reasons for not voting, political party preference, and voting in the elections of the country of residence.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, marital status, Finnish citizenship, education, economic activity and occupational status as well as the Finnish citizenship of parents and type of the place of residence.

Asiasanat

culture; expatriates; national identity; political participation; politics; voting; voting behaviour

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Cultural and national identity (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

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

Kerääjät

• Peltoniemi, Johanna (Tampere University)
• Ruostetsaari, Ilkka (Tampere University)

Ajallinen kattavuus

2014

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2014-09-15 – 2014-12-15

Maa

Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Canada, USA

Kohdealue

Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Canada, USA

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People of Finnish origin aged 18 and over living outside of Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

A sample of 3,600 Finnish citizens who had the right to vote in Finnish elections was randomly selected from the Population Register Centre. Finnish citizens living in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Canada and the USA were selected in the sample, 600 people from each country. The invitation to participate in the study was sent by mail and the data was mainly collected via internet questionnaires. Some respondents contacted the researcher to ask about the possibility to respond on paper questionnaire or by telephone and both of these ways were allowed. 185 invitation letters were returned to the sender, leading to the assumption that 3,415 invitations reached their recipients. The number of respondents was 1,067, 67 % of whom were women.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

29.6

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

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Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3575 Political Participation of Finnish Expatriates 2019

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Open-ended responses in the data were anonymised (variables q17, q18, q37). Alterations made at FSD are marked with [square brackets].

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

Peltoniemi, Johanna (Tampere University) & Ruostetsaari, Ilkka (Tampere University): Finnish Expatriates' National Identity and Political Participation 2014 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2021-06-03). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3463

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.

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

Peltoniemi, J., 2015, Äänen pitkä matka: Ulkosuomalaisten matala äänestysaktiivisuus ja joustavien äänestysmenetelmien merkitsevyys [It's a long way to voting booth: emigrant voters and the significance of convenient voting methods], Politiikka 57:4, 208-225.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Peltoniemi, J. (2015). Äänen pitkä matka: Ulkosuomalaisten matala äänestysaktiivisuus ja joustavien äänestysmenetelmien merkitsevyys. Politiikka 57(4), 208-225. URN:NBN:fi:ELE-1763264

Peltoniemi, J. (2016). Overseas Voters and Representational Deficit: Regional Representation Challenged by Emigration. Representation 52(4), 295-309. DOI:10.1080/00344893.2017.1300602

Peltoniemi, J. (2016). Parlamentissa vai ulkona? Ulkosuomalaisten poliittinen representaatio [verkkodokumentti]. Politiikka 58(2), 144-161. http://elektra.helsinki.fi/se/p/politiikka/58/2/parlamen.pdf [viitattu 27.7.2020].

Peltoniemi, J. 2018, On the Borderlines of Voting. Finnish Emigrants' Transnational Identities and Political Participation, Doctoral dissertation (monograph). Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 2403. Tampere: Tampere University Press. URN:ISBN:978-952-03-0810-0

Peltoniemi, J., 2019, From mother to emigrant? Perspectives to dual citizenship, teoksessa Johanna Leinonen ja Auvo Kostiainen (toim.) "Transnational Finnish Mobilities: Proceedings of FinnForum XI", 236-253. hdl:10138/310583

Peltoniemi, J., 2018, Transnational political engagement and emigrant voting, Journal of Contemporary European Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2018.1515727

Peltoniemi, J., 2016 Distance as a cost of cross-border voting, Research on Finnish Society 9 (2016), 19-32.