Gallup Ecclesiastica 2019

The survey studied religiosity and church membership in Finland as well as people's participation in parish activities. Questions also charted personal faith, spiritual matters, attitudes towards religious communities, and family. The respondents were first asked about helping others, donating money to charity, and the meaning of their own work. Questions surveyed why the respondents helped other people (e.g. they felt it was their duty as a citizen or a Christian, they felt good when helping others), how much money the respondents had donated to charity in the past year, and whether the respondents thought it was important that they could help and serve others in their work. The next questions focused on how the respondents spent Sundays and holidays. The respondents were asked, for example, whether they usually went to worship service on Sundays, ate a more festive meal, cooked, or cleaned. The respondents' Easter and Christmas celebrations were also examined with questions on whether they fasted or participated in a worship service on Easter and whether they visited graves or read the Christmas Gospel on Christmas. Further questions focused on fasting and the meaning of fasting to the respondents as well as the respondents' views on the importance of religious ceremonies in connection to big life events (e.g. when a child is born, marriage). Religion and worldviews were surveyed next with questions related to different religions and their teachings, spiritual matters, the existence of God, and the firmness of the respondents' belief in a number of religious tenets and phenomena (e.g. a good God, angels, the Devil). The respondents' personal spirituality was charted with questions on how often they prayed, read the Bible, watched or listened to religious programmes on TV or radio, and visited websites related to religion. The respondents were asked which books (excluding sacred books of religions), songs and spiritual influencers had the most significance for them spiritually. The respondents' religious and supernatural experiences, such as God answering their prayers or foreseeing a future event, were also surveyed. Religious traditions, family and childhood were surveyed next. The respondents were asked to choose which statements about religion and religious activities they thought described their childhood home and whether they had taught or would teach their children a bedtime prayer. Questions also charted how important the respondents thought it was to pass on various religious traditions, such as baptism, attending worship service, and celebrating Christmas as the birthday of Jesus Christ, to future generations. Attitudes towards the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland were also surveyed. The respondents were asked whether people close to them viewed the church with a more positive or negative attitude, what they thought the church's role was in mitigating climate change, and whether the church should support same-sex marriage. Next, membership of a church or other religious community was examined. Those who were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland were asked about the importance of a number of reasons for Church membership as well as whether they had considered quitting the Church. Those who were not members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church were asked whether they had previously quit the Church and what their reasons for quitting had been. Attitudes towards Finnish identity and different groups of people were also surveyed. Background variables included, among others, the respondent's age, gender, level of education, occupation, household size, household income, type of housing, NUTS2 region of residence, household composition, and political party preference in the 2019 parliamentary elections.

本调查研究了芬兰民众的宗教虔诚度、教会成员身份及教区活动参与情况，同时问卷还调查了个人信仰、精神事务、对宗教团体的态度及家庭相关情况。受访者首先被问及帮助他人、慈善捐款及自身工作的意义，包括帮助他人的原因（如认为这是公民或基督徒的义务、帮助他人时感到愉悦等）、过去一年的慈善捐款金额，以及是否认为在工作中能够帮助和服务他人具有重要意义。接下来的问题聚焦于受访者如何度过周日与假期，例如是否通常在周日参加礼拜、享用节日餐食、烹饪或打扫卫生；关于复活节和圣诞节的庆祝活动，问卷还调查了受访者是否在复活节禁食或参加礼拜，以及是否在圣诞节扫墓或诵读圣诞福音。后续问题聚焦于禁食及其对受访者的意义，以及受访者对重大人生事件（如孩子出生、结婚）中宗教仪式重要性的看法。接下来调查了宗教与世界观，涉及不同宗教及其教义、精神事务、上帝的存在，以及受访者对若干宗教信条与现象（如仁慈的上帝、天使、魔鬼）的信仰坚定程度。问卷通过询问受访者祈祷、阅读圣经、观看或收听电视/广播宗教节目及访问宗教相关网站的频率，记录其个人灵性状况；此外，还询问了哪些书籍（不含宗教圣典）、歌曲及灵性影响者对其灵性层面最具意义，以及受访者的宗教与超自然经历（如上帝回应祈祷、预见未来事件等）。接下来调查了宗教传统、家庭与童年：受访者需选择哪些关于宗教及宗教活动的陈述符合其童年家庭状况，是否曾教或会教孩子睡前祈祷，以及对传承各类宗教传统（如洗礼、参加礼拜、将圣诞节作为耶稣诞辰庆祝等）的重视程度。问卷还调查了对芬兰福音路德教会的态度，包括受访者身边亲近之人对该教会的看法（积极或消极）、教会在缓解气候变化中的角色，以及教会是否应支持同性婚姻。随后考察了教会或其他宗教团体的成员身份：针对芬兰福音路德教会成员，询问其加入教会的若干原因的重要性及是否曾考虑退出；针对非该教会成员，则询问是否曾退出过该教会及退出原因。此外，问卷还调查了对芬兰身份认同及不同人群的态度。背景变量包括受访者的年龄、性别、教育水平、职业、家庭规模、家庭收入、住房类型、居住的NUTS2区域、家庭构成，以及2019年议会选举中的政党偏好等。