Aineiston nimi

Pets as Family Members 2014-2015

Aineistonumero

FSD3139

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3139

Aineiston laatu

Kvalitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
• Lauren, Kirsi (University of Eastern Finland)
• Niemelä, Reetta
• Schuurman, Nora (University of Eastern Finland. Karelian Institute)
• Syrjämaa, Taina (University of Turku. Faculty of Humanities)

Sisällön kuvaus

This dataset contains written responses about Finnish people's experiences with pets in childhood and in the present. Most of the memories concern cats and dogs, but stories about other pets are included as well.

The respondents wrote about the role of the pet in the family and interaction with the pet, for instance. They also wrote about having to give up the pet or put it down as well as emotions relating to these situations. Many respondents reminisced pets in childhood homes and how their attitudes towards pets had changed over decades.

The dataset comprises 72 responses. Some respondents also attached pictures of their pets. The data collection was organised by the Academy of Finland's research project "Animal Agency in Human Society: Finnish Perspectives, 1890 - 2040", Human-Animal Studies network at the University of Eastern Finland, author Reetta Niemelä, and Finnish Literature Society.

Background information includes age, gender, occupation and place of residence. The data were organised into an easy to use html version at FSD.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Asiasanat

animals; dogs; domestic animals; household pets; oral history

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Agriculture and forestry (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Plants and animals (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Finnish Literature Society

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2014-10-10 – 2015-05-31

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havainto/aineistoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Event/Process/Activity

Media unit: Text

Perusjoukko/otos

Finnish people with memories about pets

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Havainto/aineistoyksiköiden valinta

Non-probability: Availability

An invitation for participating in the study was published on the website of the Finnish Literature Society. Responses could be sent either by e-mail, mail, or a web form on the site.

Aineistonkeruun tekniikka

Self-administered writings and/or diaries: E-mail

Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Paper

Self-administered writings and/or diaries: Web-based

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Data collection guidelines: Self-administered writings guide

Aineiston määrä

72 responses in txt, pdf and html formats. The length of the responses varies from a couple of sentences to 19 pages.

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: suomi.

Kvalitatiiviset aineistot ovat saatavilla vain alkuperäiskielellä, niitä ei käännetä.

Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

Identifiers were removed from responses (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, references to identifiable third persons). In addition, human faces were blurred in photographs. Anonymised parts were marked with [square brackets] (or [[double square brackets]] in scanned texts). Responses sent via e-mail or the web form were saved as txt files. Responses sent via mail were saved as pdf files. Pictures attached to the responses were saved as separate files and they are referred to in the texts with the reference "Liite: daF3139_xx_kuva.jpg". These references also include any picture captions.

The data have been archived in their entirety (186 responses) in the Finnish Literature Society's folklore archives.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Finnish Literature Society (SKS) & Lauren, Kirsi (University of Eastern Finland) & Niemelä, Reetta & Schuurman, Nora (University of Eastern Finland) & Syrjämaa, Taina (University of Turku): Pets as Family Members 2014-2015 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2017-05-22). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3139

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Erityisehdot

The data may contain identifiers that have not been anonymised (e.g. person names, information on place of residence, names of work places and such). When publishing quotations from the data, users need to consider very carefully in each specific case what information needs to be removed or altered according to research ethical guidelines.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Kärkkäinen, Suvi-Katariina (2019). Eläimet ihmisten kasvattajina. Itä-Suomen yliopisto: Kasvatustieteiden pro gradu -tutkielma. urn_nbn_fi_uef-20191478

Jokinen, Jenni (2020). Lemmikkieläimet, arki ja hyvinvointi: Lemmikkieläinten hyvinvointivaikutukset omistajiensa elämään. Tampereen yliopisto: Yhteiskuntatutkimuksen pro gradu -tutkielma. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004294485

Rosenberg, Mikko (2023) Lemmikkirakkautta monilajisissa kodeissa ihmisten kertomana. Teoksessa Pirjo Suvilehto, Pauliina Rautio & Veli-Matti Värri (toim.) Nuorten luonto eläimineen. Kohti monilajista nuorisotutkimusta. Nuorisotutkimusseura/Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, julkaisuja 246. s. 85 - 108.

Priiki, Katri 2023. Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish. Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 14(3), 107-136.