DDI description: Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2023 DDI-kuvailu: Eroamisilmoitukset Suomen evankelis-luterilaisesta ja ortodoksisesta kirkosta: eroamissyyt 2023 3843 Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive Finnish Social Science Data Archive 1.0.0 Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2023 [metadata]. Metadata version 1.0.0 (2024-03-20). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [producer and distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3843; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3843 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. Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2023 Eroamisilmoitukset Suomen evankelis-luterilaisesta ja ortodoksisesta kirkosta: eroamissyyt 2023 3843 urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3843 10.60686/t-fsd3843 Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry Tampereen vapaa-ajattelijat ry Sampling from the total data was done by Jori Mäntysalo In accordance with the agreement between FSD and the depositor. Finnish Social Science Data Archive Reasons for Resigning from Church

Datasets in the series consist of reasons stated by Finnish citizens in the Eroakirkosta.fi web service for resigning from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church. After filing the resignation, the service allows users to write down their reasons for leaving the Church.

The first dataset in the series covers years 2010-2017. Starting from 2018, annual datasets supplement the data series.

Nowadays, it is also possible to resign from the church via the online service of Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV). The eroakirkosta.fi website now directs people who want to resign from the church to use the service of DVV in the first instance. As a result, the total number of divorces reported on the eroakirkosta.fi website has decreased significantly each year since the early 2020s and from 2024 onwards, all feedback submitted annually has been archived instead of a sample.

 1.0 Vakaumusten tasa-arvo VATA ry & Tampereen vapaa-ajattelijat ry: Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2023 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2024-01-25). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3843; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3843 church religion religious affiliation religious behaviour religious beliefs religious institutions Social sciences Religion and values Social change

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 1,026 people when quitting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2023. 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).

 Finland Finland Individual Individual People who had quit the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church on eroakirkosta.fi Qualitative Cross-section CrossSection Vakaumusten tasa-arvo ry Probability: Systematic random Probability.SystematicRandom

The responses have been sorted chronologically and then every 3rd response has been extracted.

 Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI) SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire.CAWI Programming script ProgrammingScript 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 Textual explanations submitted by 1,026 persons in a single TXT file. Additionally, the data were organised into an easy to use HTML version and a CSV version. 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. All direct and indirect identifiers, including smaller places of residence, relating to the respondent or other private persons were removed from the data. Sections anonymised at FSD are marked with [square brackets].