Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2021

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 941 people when quitting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2021. 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).

由两个芬兰协会维护的在线服务eroakirkosta.fi允许人们通过填写在线表格退出教会。填写表格后，人们可通过自由文本格式阐述其退出教会的原因。本数据集包含2021年941人退出芬兰福音信义会（Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland）或芬兰东正教会（Finnish Orthodox Church）时填写的原因。该数据集是年度补充数据系列的一部分，该系列每年针对约1000名通过eroakirkosta.fi在线服务提交退教原因的样本展开分析。背景信息涵盖年龄、性别及退教月份。这些数据已由FSD整理为易用的HTML版本。该数据集仅提供信息填写时所用的语言版本（主要为芬兰语，少量评论为英语和瑞典语）。