Gatherings of Finnish Male Pensioners on a Market Square 2011

The data consist of transcribed interviews of retired men who spent time on a market square in a town in Finland and fieldnotes containing the observations of the researcher. The men were interviewed either alone or in groups. The questions in the interviews were related to the public space and its use as well as the social networks between persons spending time in the square. Questions covered, for instance, the kind of days and time spent on the square, subjects of discussion, several aspects of the square as a meeting place, and different aspects of the group they met with. The square in which the study was conducted is a market square typical to Finnish medium-sized towns. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

本数据集包含了在芬兰某城镇市场广场上度过时光的退休男性的访谈转录本以及研究者对观察结果的现场笔记。访谈对象可以是单独接受采访，亦或是在小组中进行。访谈问题涉及公共空间的利用以及在该广场上度过时光的人们之间的社会网络。具体问题包括在广场上度过的具体日子和时间、讨论的主题、广场作为聚会场所的多个方面，以及他们所遇见的群体的不同特征。研究中所涉及的广场是典型的芬兰中型城镇市场广场。该数据集仅以芬兰语提供。