Survey on Attitudes Towards Swedish Language and Swedish-Speaking Finns 2017

Survey on Attitudes Towards Swedish Language and Swedish-Speaking Finns 2017

Description

The survey studied the attitudes of Finnish speakers towards Swedish language and the Finns whose mother tongue is Swedish. Both Finnish and Swedish are official languages in Finland, but Swedish is the minority language. The survey was funded by Svenska Folkskolans Vänner (SFV). The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed with a number of statements relating to, for example, Swedish language, usefulness of bilingualism, need for politicians and authorities to master both languages, learning Swedish at school, bilingual schools, discrimination, the minority culture, access to own-language services, costs of bilingual services, relations between the speakers of the two languages, attitudes towards Swedish-speaking Finns and changes over time in the attitudes, usefulness of being able to speak Swedish, and the status of Swedish language in legislation. Background variables included, among others, gender, age, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions of residence, occupation/status in employment, household composition, household income, language spoken at home and political party preference.
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Year of publication

2019

Authors

Tietoarkisto - Publisher

Think Tank e2 - Creator

e2

Pitkänen, Ville - Creator

e2 ajatuspaja - Creator

Other information

Fields of science

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Language

Finnish

Open access

Restricted access

License

Other (Not Open)

Keywords

Kielet ja kielitiede, Social behaviour and attitudes, Sosiaalinen käyttäytyminen ja asenteet, culture, kulttuuri, Cultural and national identity, Kulttuuri- ja kansallinen identiteetti, minority language users, ruotsinkieliset, suomenruotsalaiset, kaksikielisyys, bilingualism, ruotsin kieli, Language and linguistics, suomenkieliset, minority languages
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