Children, Childhood and Family
FSD holdings contain a number of data series and individual datasets suitable for research on children, childhood and family.
There are also many datasets that contain individual questions and variables which are potentially useful to researchers of the subject. The data archived at the FSD can be downloaded free of charge from Aila Data Service, according to the conditions set for each dataset. Please note that below is listed only a sample of all data available at the Archive and we encourage you to search more datasets on the subject on Aila.
Questions and variables of quantitative datasets that have been fielded in English or translated at the FSD can be explored by browsing their codebooks or through Aila variable search. If a quantitative dataset has not yet been translated, you can request a translation free of charge. Qualitative data are only available in their original language. Where applicable, the codebook and other related material are freely accessible on the study description page of each dataset.
Recent Data Releases
- Quantitative study: Physical Activity and Digital Gaming of Sixth-Graders 2015
- Qualitative study: Finnish Memories of Childhood Fears 2020-2021
- Qualitative study: Parents' Experiences of Peer Support Groups as Part of Non-institutional Social Care in Child …
- Qualitative study: Narratives of Everyday Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2021
- Qualitative study: Experiences of Voluntary Childlessness and Sterilisation 2017
- Quantitative study: Child-up: Survey for Teachers 2019
- Quantitative study: Child-up: Survey for Social Workers 2019
- Quantitative study: Child-up: Survey for Children in Pre-primary Education 2019
- Quantitative study: Child-up: Survey for Interpreters 2019
- Quantitative study: Child-up: Survey for Parents 2019
- More data on Aila Data Service
- Quantitative study
- Qualitative study
Datasets on the theme
FSD3134 Child Barometer 2016
The Child Barometer 2016 charted how 6-year-old Finnish children felt about trust. Views on trust were surveyed on terms of social relations, emotions, and bullying.
FSD3129 Children and Youth Leisure Survey 2016
The survey studied the leisure time activities of Finnish children and young people aged from seven to 29.
FSD3071 Children's Media Barometer 2013
The barometer charted children's use of media such as TV, Internet, games, mobile phone, music, and print media.
FSD2547 Nordic Study on Child Rights to Participate 2009-2010: Nordic Countries
The main aim of the survey was to investigate to what extent children and young people can influence matters at home, school and in society and what issues they would like to have influence on. The integrated dataset contains the responses of 5,775 pupils in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Island and Denmark.
Data series
Data in these series also include questions on the theme.
Datasets elsewhere
People interested in finding data on children, childhood and family should also take a look at data available at other data archives around the world.
In Finland, the Language Bank of Finland (Opens in new tab) also provides services to researchers and archives audio and video material. Services of various European social science data archives can be accessed through the website of CESSDA (Opens in new tab) . The UK Data Service (Opens in new tab) has, among other things, a wide variety of excellent qualitative data. Another good source of data is the German GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Opens in new tab) . The extensive holdings of the American ICPSR (Opens in new tab) are also well worth searching.
