Church Resignation Forms Filed in Finland: Reasons for Resigning 2022

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 797 people when quitting the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or the Finnish Orthodox Church in 2022. 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).

由芬兰两家协会维护的在线服务 eroakirkosta.fi，允许个人通过填写在线表格的方式辞去教会职务。在填写表格后，个人有机会以自由文本格式阐述辞去教会的原因。本数据集收录了797人在2022年退出芬兰福音派路德教会或芬兰东正教会时所提供的辞去原因。该数据集是每年补充更新的一系列数据之一，旨在分析每年通过 eroakirkosta.fi 在线服务提交的约1,000份辞去教会原因的样本。背景信息包括年龄、性别以及辞去教会的月份。这些数据已由芬兰社会科学数据服务中心（FSD）整理成易于使用的HTML版本。该数据集仅提供用于输入信息时所使用的语言版本（主要为芬兰语）。