Authors

• Saarelma-Töhönen, Hanna (University of Turku)

Keywords

children, families, low income, poverty, social exclusion, social security, unemployment

Abstract

The data consists of writings in which respondents talk about their experiences of poverty inherited from their childhood. The data was originally collected for a Master's thesis on what poverty and exclusion look and feel like in the everyday lives of families with children from one generation to the next. The writing call was open to anyone who had lived in a low-income family as a child and who was themselves a family member and low-income earner at the time of the collection.

In the writing call, respondents were asked to answer the following questions to help guide their writing; where have you felt deprived as a child due to financial deprivation, how do you feel deprivation has affected your life and how is deprivation seen and felt by your children, and do you feel that deprivation or financial scarcity has brought positive things into your life.

As background information, age group, gender and labour market status were asked. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.