Nordic Family Interviews 1996: English Summaries

The data consist of summaries in English of family interviews conducted in Finnish, focusing on changes in the lives of families with children in 1990s Finland. The original interviews and summaries in Finnish are archived in the dataset FSD2246. The interviews were conducted in 1996 in Tampere and Jyväskylä regions in 23 families. Adult family members were interviewed both together and separately. In the joint interviews, spouses were asked about family composition, housing, household income, changes in the family in the 1990s, and taste in tv programs, clothes, food and decoration. In the individual interviews, the main topics included the respondents' life history, educational and employment history, organisation of everyday life, children and their upbringing, daycare and school, job, ideas of social class and politics, and social networks. Seven children, aged 6-13, were interviewed about their everyday life at home and outside home, leisure activities, housing and environment, taste in food, movies, books and clothes, changes in life, future expectations, school and homework, relationship with parents, the family's social class, and social networks. The data comprise 26 summaries with a total length of 237 pages. The interview summaries and child interview questions are available in English.

本数据集包含芬兰家庭访谈的英文摘要，聚焦于20世纪90年代芬兰儿童家庭生活的变迁。原始的芬兰语访谈和摘要存档于FSD2246数据集中。访谈于1996年在坦佩雷和约维尔地区对23个家庭的成年家庭成员进行，包括集体访谈和个别访谈。在集体访谈中，配偶被询问关于家庭构成、住房、家庭收入、20世纪90年代家庭变化以及电视节目、服饰、食品和装饰的品味。在个别访谈中，主要话题包括受访者的生平、教育和工作历史、日常生活组织、子女及其养育、日托和学校、工作、对阶级和社会政治的看法，以及社会网络。对7名6至13岁的儿童进行了访谈，内容涉及他们在家庭和户外的日常生活、休闲活动、住房与环境、食品、电影、书籍和服饰的品味、生活的变化、未来期望、学校和作业、与父母的关系、家庭的社会阶级以及社会网络。数据集包含26个摘要，总页数为237页。访谈摘要和儿童访谈问题均提供英文版本。