Finnish Social Science Data Archive provides access to a wide range of digital research data
Read more about our services. They are all free of charge.
Recent News
- News Release: COVID-19 and FSD’s services
- News Release: FSD participates in facilitating international research on child and youth wellbeing
- Event: Webinar: What’s new in CESSDA Data Catalogue
- News Release: Looking at the bright side of 2020: data use skyrocketed in the year of COVID-19
- News Release: User Services phone number has changed
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
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Recent Data Releases
- Quantitative study: Finnish Municipal Election Candidates 2017: Foreign Language Speakers
- Quantitative study: Finnish Working Life Barometer 2018
- Quantitative study: Social Distinctions in Modern Russia 1990-2015
- Quantitative study: Finnish Working Life Barometer 2017
- Quantitative study: Social Distinctions in Modern Russia 2015
- Quantitative study: Social Distinctions in Modern Russia 2006
- More data on Aila Data Service
- Quantitative study
- Qualitative study
A closer look at FSD services
FSD’s basic operations include archiving and dissemination of research data for reuse, but we also offer several other types of services for researchers, students and everyone else interested in issues regarding research data.
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Aila Data ServiceThe Aila Data Service provides access to data archived at FSD, in accordance with the conditions set for each dataset. On Aila, there are over 1,600 datasets, almost 300 of which are qualitative. Registered Aila users include students, teachers and researchers from all Finnish universities and polytechnics.
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Data Management GuidelinesThe online guidelines written by FSD’s experts contain practical instructions on managing digital research data in all stages of the data lifecycle. In the guidelines you will find, among others, detailed advice on preparing a data management plan.
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Information serviceOur user services will be glad to help you with any questions relating to research data. Need help with planning data collection, managing your data or long-term preservation? Cannot find suitable data for your research? Contact us and we will help.
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PennaPenna is a data collection tool created to facilitate collection and streamlined archiving of qualitative textual data. It handles the technical implementation of data collection as well as the participants’ archiving permissions. Penna’s user interface is available only in Finnish, but data collection is possible in English as well.
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PohtivaPohtiva is the Finnish Party Agenda Database containing current and past agendas of Finnish political parties as well as other significant political documents. Pohtiva is only available in Finnish.
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Research Methods GuidebookThe Research Methods Guidebook consists of sections on qualitative and quantitative research methods. Up-to-date methodological texts, exercises and datasets are suitable for studying and teaching in the higher education institutions or self-study, especially in the field of social sciences and humanities. The Guidebook is only available in Finnish.
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MOTV - Research Methods Web ResourceResearch methods web resource (MOTV in Finnish) is FSD’s older environment for teaching and learning quantitative and qualitative research methods of the social and behavioural sciences. MOTV is only available in Finnish.
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Services of CESSDACESSDA is a pan-European research infrastructure consisting of data archives across Europe. CESSDA provides training and data services free of charge. Finland is a member of and FSD is a national service provider for CESSDA. The CESSDA Data Catalogue contains metadata of all data in the holdings of CESSDA’s service providers.
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FNESdataThe FNESdata Longitudinal Survey Metadata Portal allows users to examine the variables in the combined data of four Finnish National Election Studies (2013–2015). The portal has a basket where users can save the variables they need.
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ArchivingFSD is a reliable partner in sharing your digital research data and preserving them long term. We create a version of your data suitable for reuse, describe the data for you and make sure that the data can be easily found and reused according to the agreed conditions of use.