Aineiston nimi

Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2020

Aineistonumero

FSD3503

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3503
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3503

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

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

Muut tekijät

• Sampling from the total data was done by Jori Mäntysalo

Sisällön kuvaus

The online eroakirkosta.fi service, maintained by two Finnish associations, allows people to resign from church by filling in an online form. After filling in the form, people are given an opportunity to explain their reasons for resigning in free-text format. This dataset consists of the reasons entered by 961 people when quitting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2020. The dataset is part of the annually supplemented data series which examines the reasons for leaving church submitted by a sample of approximately 1,000 people on the eroakirkosta.fi online service each year.

Background information includes age, gender and month of leaving church. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.

The dataset is only available in the languages used for entering the information (mainly Finnish, a few comments in English and Swedish).

Asiasanat

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

Tieteenala/Aihealue

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

Ajallinen kattavuus

2020

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2020-01-01 – 2020-12-31

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 data of 8,656 resignation forms that included information on the reasons for leaving church. Blank responses were removed from all the feedback left in 2020 before sampling. The remaining 7,787 responses were sorted by time and date, and every 8th response was selected.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Programming script

Aineiston määrä

Textual explanations submitted by 961 persons in a single TXT file. Additionally, the data were organised into an easy to use HTML version and a CSV version.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

1.0

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 2020 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2021-01-15). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3503

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.