Experiences of Voluntary Childlessness and Sterilisation 2017

The dataset consists of self-administered written texts on voluntary childlessness and sterilisation. The writing invitation was open to all voluntarily childless individuals who have considered sterilisation or have been sterilised. The data were collected for a Master's thesis. In the writing guidelines, participants were asked to write about how they had arrived at the decision to remain childless, and to describe what they thought about sterilisation. The study aimed to collect data on the reasons that had led the participants to seek sterilisation, and how the sterilisation procedure had impacted the lives of voluntarily childless individuals who had been sterilised. The views of those participants who would like to be sterilised but did not meet the conditions set in the Sterilisation Act were also examined. Background information included the participant's gender and age group. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

该数据集由自愿选择无子女状态及绝育手术的个体所撰写的自述性文字资料构成。参与写作的邀请面向所有考虑过或已接受绝育手术的自愿无子女者。数据收集旨在撰写硕士学位论文。在写作指南中，参与者被要求阐述其选择维持无子女状态的决定过程，并描述其对绝育手术的看法。研究旨在收集参与者寻求绝育手术的原因，以及绝育手术如何影响已接受绝育手术的自愿无子女者的生活。此外，研究还考察了那些希望进行绝育但未满足《绝育法》规定的条件参与者的观点。背景信息包括参与者的性别和年龄组。数据被整理为易于使用的HTML版本，存储于FSD。该数据集仅提供芬兰语版本。