Browsing by Author "Aalto, Karoliina"

Goals. The goal of this Bachelor’s Thesis was to examine how often households living in Helsinki are cooking food and is there a connection between frequency of cooking and the size of the household or the financial resources of the household. My Thesis is related to a survey carried out by Helsingin Sanomat in fall 2016. Thesis examines how often households cook food and what kind of households are cooking the most. In addition, this Thesis examines is there a connection between the frequency of cooking and the number of children living in the household or between monthly incomes of the household. The subject is topical because it hasn’t been much examined before and it provides information about the Finnish eating habits. According to some previous examination about the frequency of cooking Finns cook quite often. Factors that may be connected to the frequency of cooking have hardly been previously examined. Methods. My Thesis was executed as a quantitative research. The data of my Thesis was secondary, as it was originally collected by a survey carried out by Helsingin Sanomat in fall 2016. There were 13 381 respondents and 4 147 of the respondents were from Helsinki. The respondents were either readers of the Helsingin Sanomat online magazine or people who visited the website. Hence data can not be considered as statistically significant take, it is more like a comprehensive sample. The data was analyzed with SPSS Statistics 24 utilizing descriptive statistical analysis methods such as frequencies and percentages. The connections between variables were analyzed with crosstabulation, Khi square -test and Fisher’s exact -test. Intensity of the connections were analyzed with Cramérs V -coefificient. Results and conclusions. According to the results of my Thesis, households living in Helsinki cooked food at home few times a week or daily. Familys with children and two parents cooked the most. Between the frequency of cooking and the number of children a statistically significant, but rather weak, connection was found. The results provided indications that households with more children cooked more often. Between the frequency of cooking and the financial resources a statistically significant, but weak, connection was found. However, the results provided indications that households with higher incomes cooked slightly more often. Although results are not generalizable in Finland, they provide information about Finnish eating habits in Helsinki. The results of this Thesis offer reckoned ideas for further scientific research from this subject.