FSD2247 Nordic Family Interviews 1996: English Summaries

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A) BACKGROUND

1. What is your name?

2. How old are you?

3. In what grade are you (in school)?

4. Tell me about your family, who belongs to your family?

B) LIVING/HOUSING

5. How long have you lived in this house/home? (have you ever moved? / do you remember where you lived before?)

6. How do you like to live here? (good and bad things / environment, yard)

7. Do you have your own room?

C) TASTE

8. What kind of music do you like/don't like?

9. What kind of TV programmes are good/bad in your opinion?

10. What kind of movies are good and bad in your opinion? (what is the best film you have seen? / do you watch movies together with your parents? / do you (you and parents) talk about them?)

11. Do you read books? What kind of books do you like? (what is the best book you have red? / does anybody read to you? / do you talk with your parents about the books you have red?)

12. What kind of clothes do you like? (do you choose them yourself?)

13. If you want to feast and enjoy yourself what kind of food and drink you would like to have?

14. Do you and your friends have same kind of taste? (music / TV programmes / movies / clothes / food)

D) CHANGES IN LIFE

15. What kind of big changes have you experienced? (going to day care/school / change of day care/school / moving to a new home / change of friends/loss of a friend / birth of siblings / parents' divorce / illness / death)

16. How do you think your life will be in 5 years time?

E) EVERYDAY LIFE

17. Describe an oridinary day from morning to night, what do you do? (how do days differ from each other? / how do weekdays and weekends differ from each other?)

18. What do you do in your free time? (on weekdays / on weekends / on holidays)

19. Do you have hobbies? What? (how/why did you start?)

20. Do you have enough time for yourself?

F) PARENTS

21. Do you know what kind of childhood your parents had? (how did it differ from yours?)

22. Do you know what your mother/father do for work?

23. What do your parents do when they are not working?

24. What do you do together with your mother/father?

25. How has mother's/father's unemployment effected on you/on family/on the unemployed parent?

26. How can you help your parent now and when you have grown up? (cleaning / washing dishes / taking out the garbage / taking care of younger siblings / comforting, etc.)

27. What kind of rules do you have at home? (TV, videos, movies / curview / pocket money, things to have / Do you talk about these rules together, can you influence on them? / Does mother and father have different rules?)

28. What kind of rules do you have elsewhere, outside home? (in school, in hobbies, when visiting / Are the rules different in school and at home? How?)

G) SCHOOL WORK - HOME WORK - OWN MONEY

29. Describe your school work and how is it in school? (do you like school? / what is nice/boring? / how long are your school days? / how much time do you spend on homeworks? / what is your favorite subject? / do you like your class? / what about your teacher/teachers?)

30. If you could deside, would you change something in school? What? (can children deside anything in school?)

31. If you could schoose, in what school would you like to go to? Why?

32. If you have problems in school, to whom can you talk about them?

33. What would you like to be when you grow up? Do you have some dream job? (Why are you interested in that job/profession? / Do you know what kind of schools you have to go in order to get that job?)

34. Do you have any duties at home? Do you do some other work, too? (babysitting / delivering papers / helping neighbours, grand parent, etc.)

35. Do you get money from these "jobs"/duties?

36. Do you have your own money? (weekly allowance / do you have money in bank? / where do you get your money and how much?)

37. What do you do with your money? (do you save it, for what? / what do you buy?)

38. Do you have some expencive things?

39. Is there something you need or would like to have? Do you think you can have it?

H) FAMILY'S ECONOMICAL SITUATION

40. How does your family get along economically? (If there are economical problems: How does it effect on you?)

41. What did you and your family do last year during summer holiday? winter holiday? christmas holiday?

42. What would you like to do on holidays? What you don't like to do?

I) SOCIETY

43. Who are poor and who are rich people in your opinion?

44. How do you know or from what do you see wether a person is rich or poor?

45. What do you think why others are rich and others are poor?

46. Are you and your family rich or poor? (and compared to your friends)

47. Do you know what gowernment and parliament do? Do they take care of things important to you?

48. Can or should children be able to influence in desicion making in home? (in the neighbourhood / in school / in Finland / in the world / In what things would you like to have an influence?)

49. Do you know about children's rights? Who takes care of them?

50. Where can children contact if they have problems?

J) SOCIAL NETWORK

51. When your parents go out in the evening, who takes care of you?

52. Who visits your family?

53. Who do you and your family visit?

54. Who do you invite to your home?

55. With whom do you and your family spend free time/holidays?

56. With whom can you talk about things important to you?

57. Who is your best friend?

58. Do you have adult friends?

59. Do all your friend know each other?

60. Whose best friend are you?

61. Who are your relatives? How often do you see them and what do you do together?

62. What about your grandparents? How often do you see them and what do you do together?

63. How often do you meet your father/mother? (do you spend nights in his/her home? / what do you do together?)

K) ENDING

64. What do you hope or dream from future? (hopes, dreams, wishes)

65. Would you like to draw a picture of your family.

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