|
For any question on data and metadata, please contact: Eurostat user support |
|
|||
1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Finland |
||
1.2. Contact organisation unit | Social Statistics |
||
1.5. Contact mail address | Väestö, oikeus- ja yhdenvertaisuus PL 4B 00022 Tilastokeskus FINLAND |
|
|||
2.1. Metadata last certified | 06/02/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 06/02/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 09/02/2024 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.1. Data description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data and metadata are transmitted to Eurostat by the Member States in the framework of the Unified Demographic Data Collection which is in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 and their implementing regulations. This Euro SDMX Metadata Structure is used for the purpose of quality reporting. The definition of the quality concepts and guidelines are described in the European Statistical System Handbook for Quality Reports. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The regional breakdown of the Member States in the regional demographic tables is done under the most recent NUTS classification. There are agreements between Eurostat and Candidate countries as well as between Eurostat and EFTA countries, for which statistical regions have been coded in a way that resembles NUTS. For more information on the versions in force, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of persons. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population, live births, deaths, acquisition of citizenship, immigration and emigration, marriages and divorces data are available at national and regional level of geographical detail. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual level data. Population structure since 1990; Live births since 1990; Deaths since 1990; Immigration since 1990; Emigration since 1990; Acquisition of citizenship since 1990; Marriages opposite-sex couples since 1990, same-sex couples since 2017; Divorces opposite-sex couples since 1990, same-sex couples since 2017. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3.9. Base period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
|
|||
Data is collected at unit (person) level. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December). The reference period for vital events data is the calendar year in which the events occurred. Due to short waiting time, one month or end of January, some events are lacking from the data. This is the reason to estimate those lacking events by including data relating to the years t-4, t-3, t-2 and t-1 and reported between February year t and January year t+1. See below a table “Vital events of prior years included in the data for 2022”. Vital events of prior years included in the data for 2022 by type of event
|
|
|||
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Not applicable. |
|||
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable. |
|
|||
7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Not available. |
|||
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Not available. |
|
|||
8.1. Release calendar | |||
See 8.2. |
|||
8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not available. |
|
|||
Yearly. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.1. Dissemination format - News release | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
https://stat.fi/en/topic/population-and-society Population structure: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/vaerak. Births: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/synt. Deaths: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/kuol. Migration: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/muutl. Acquisition of citizenship: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/kans. Marriages: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/ssaaty. Divorces: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/ssaaty. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.3. Dissemination format - online database | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population structure: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=vaerak. Births: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=synt. Deaths: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=kuol. Migration: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=muutl. Acquisition of citizenship: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=kans. Marriages: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=ssaaty. Divorces: https://stat.fi/en/database-tables?topic=vae&statistic=ssaaty. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.5. Dissemination format - other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.6. Documentation on methodology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.7. Quality management - documentation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population: https://www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/vaerak/laa_en.html; Births: https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/synt/laa_en.html; Deaths: https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/kuol/laa_en.html; Immigrants/emigrants: https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/muutl/laa_en.html; Citizenship: https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/kans/laa_en.html; Marriages/Divorces: https://tilastokeskus.fi/til/ssaaty/laa_en.html;
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||
12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Not available. |
|||
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not available. |
|||
12.3. Completeness | |||
Not available. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.1. Accuracy - overall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.2. Sampling error | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.3. Non-sampling error | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||
14.1. Timeliness | |||
According to Art 4 (2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014, each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II and related standard reference metadata ( In the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year. According to Article 3 (2) of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year. Population: about 4 months. Live births: about 4 months. Deaths: about 4 months. Immigration and emigration: about 5 months. Acquisitions of citizenship: about 5 months. Marriage: about 4 months. Divorce: about 4 months. |
|||
14.2. Punctuality | |||
No time lag. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fully comparable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population: Digital and population data services agency, DVV, (former Population Register Centre) picked information of all persons living permanently in Finland at the beginning of every month and published statistics of that material of population on internet. Big number of deaths were lacking of that material compared to respective statistics of Statistics Finland. DVV put an end to this service in the end of 2015. Population: Digital and population data services agency picks information of all persons living permanently in Finland 31 Dec at the beginning of February in next year but does not publish statistics of that material on internet. DVV asks Statistics Finland for statistics of population at the end of the year to publish it on its webpages. Population: Statistics Finland does not know how its aggregate statistics is used in other organisations or in Statistics Finland. Births: The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare keeps medical register of births of all deliveries in Finnish hospitals and publishes statistics of that material. The difference compared to the material of Statistics Finland is that their material also contains information of deliveries of women (mothers) living permanently abroad. Deaths: Cause of death statistics of Statistics Finland also produces statistics of deaths and publishes it on webpages of Statistics Finland. The difference compared to the material of Population statistics is that cause of deaths statistics waiting time is longer, about 11 months, than that of Population statistics. Population statistics takes into account late reported notifications of deaths into statistics of next statistical year. Emigration, Immigration: About differences and comparability of residence permits statistics and migration statistics. Here follows an account of difficulties to identify third-country nationals, who have got residence permit for at least 12 months, in immigration data. In Finland Finnish Immigration Service (FIS) is responsible for granting residence permits. With the residence permit FIS can give a person a PIN on condition that person's documents are sufficient, if not he/she has to visit DPDSA to appy for it. For our perspective this is a problem for a comparative study between resident permit data and immigration data. Report of this follows. FIS is also responsible for producing residence permit statistics for Eurostat. These statistics are based on FIS database on residence permits. Statistics Finland is responsible for producing migration statistics. Migration statistics are based on data provided by Digital and population data services agency (DPDSA). In order that a person of third-country national is counted as an immigrant in migration statistics there are certain conditions to be fulfilled. One condition is the personal identification number (PIN), and the second is the place of residence (municipality). These are granted to a person by Digital and population data services agency only, if the person has legal right to stay in Finland (residence permit) and the person is going to stay permanently (or at least 12 months) in Finland. In principle, all third-country nationals who have got residence permit for at leat 12 months, PIN and domicile are registered in DPDSA, which also means that these people are counted as immigrants. However, from an annual statistic's point of view they are not necessarily in the immigration statistics in the same year the residence permit was granted. One reason for this is bureaucratic delay, which occurs in between the granting of residence permit by FIS and granting PIN and place of residence by DPDSA. For example a person can get residence permit late this year and is not able to get PIN and place of residence during the same year. There might be other reasons as well. Such a reason might be that a person with a resident permit don't apply for the domicile or their is, for some unknown reason, a delay to apply for it. In 2021 we had a possibility to match residence permit data to immigration data 2020 at the individula level. This was data which FIS had transferred to the population information system (register) of DPDSA. The combined data revealed that only two thirds of third-country nationals data records contained informations about their residence permits. For some reason (such as insufficient information or details in documents) FIS could not give person a PIN (which they can get from DPDSA) after they had made the positive decision to give her/him a residence permit.This means that the comparison of FIS data to our immigration data is not perfect at all. As described above persons who have not got PIN with the residence permit have to visit DPDSA and apply for it and after have got it, apply for the domicile. From our angle the problem is that after third-country nationals have got PIN the DPDSA is not asking FIS to send these peoples information about residence permits to population information system of DPDSA. Only after DPDSA asks FIS to send these peoples information about residence permit we can make a detailed comparison between the residence permit statistics and the immigration statistics for some specific statistical year. O Acquisition of citizenship: not applicable. Marriage: not applicable. Divorces: not applicable. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population structure statistics are coherent with population change statistics. This is shown by population correction. The population correction variable indicates mainly late reported notifications of immigrations/emigrations which are not included in population change statistics. |
|
|||
All population data is free of charge except population structure data: data picking cost is 20 000 e per year. To produce population structure statistics requires around 7 to 8 work months (collecting, processing and releasing). There is no burden on respondents as data is totally derived from register. To produce population change statistics (births, deaths, migration) requires around 10 work months (collecting, processing and releasing). There is no burden on respondents as data is totally derived from register. |
|
|||
17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Not applicable. |
|||
17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Not applicable. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.1. Source data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.2. Frequency of data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yearly. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.3. Data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population structure: Data is ordered by Statistics Finland in December from Digital and population data services agency. After the one month waiting period data is created during first week of February and transferred in electronical form to Statistics Finland. Population change data: Every saturday Digital and population data services agency picks all demographic notifications that have been registered into population information system during the last calendar week. Then data is transferred in electronic form to Statistics Finland. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.4. Data validation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population structure: Main critical variables are logically cross-checked, e.g. age, marital status, age of mother/father. Also citizenship, country of birth, mother tongue are checked against ISO-standards. Population change: Births: Main critical variables are logically cross-checked, e.g. mother has a place of domicile in Finland at the time of delivery, marital status of mother at the time of delivery, extreme ages of mother/father. Also citizenship, country of birth, mother tongue are checked against ISO-standards. Deaths: Main critical variables are logically cross-checked, e.g. dead person has a place of domicile in Finland at the time of death, marital status of dead person at the time of death, extreme ages of dead person. Also citizenship, country of birth, mother tongue are checked against ISO-standards. Migration: Main critical variables are logically cross-checked, e.g. migrated person has a place of domicile in Finland at the time of move, marital status of migrated person at the time of move, extreme ages of migrated person. Also country of destination/departure, citizenship, country of birth, mother tongue are checked against ISO-standards. Immigration record is generated if person doesn't belong to population data in the beginning of the year when he/she moves for the first time in statistical year inside the country. The Digital and population data services agency has charged Statistics Finland with the task of conducting a sample survey on correctness of address information. Around 11 000 people are asked whether their address in the Population Information System (register) is correct. In the most recent survey in 2012, the address was correct for 98.9 per cent of the respondents. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.5. Data compilation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In May 2020, the Digital and Population Data Services Agency changed the municipality of residence into unknown for around 10,000 persons. These were persons whose location had been unspecified for at least two years and who have had no known place of residence since 1 January 2017. These persons have failed to make notification of emigration and have been excluded from the population statistics. In 2022 the Population Information System included 106,000 persons without data on marital status. They are immigrants whose marital status could not be ascertained. The Population Information Act requires storing of data on marital status in the Population Information System only as concerns Finnish citizens. In the statistics childless persons were coded as unmarried and if they had children, their absent marital status was changed into divorced. For those babies born at the end of the year, for whom no name, language and religion have been registered in the Population Information System during January, the mother’s language and religion are entered in the statistics for the end of the year. Population changes: In all population change data record is deleted if person does not live permanently in Finland at the time of event. In the tables delivered to Eurostat the year of birth of persons with the late notifications is edited as if the notifications had been received during the statistical year (population changes+marriages, divorces, less than one per cent off all notifications). Births: For those babies born for whom no language has been registered in the Population Information System, the mother’s language is entered in the statistics. Immigration: We do not do imputations for the country of departure. A liveborn child of mother non-permanently resident but father permanently resident in Finland is not taken into account in the birth statistics. However this child is included in immigration statistics and thus in population. Emigration: We do not do any imputations for the country of destinations. If the record of the person is taken away of the raw material of the population data then the record is included in the data of emigration. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.6. Adjustment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population correction (immigration/emigration): Population correction is the difference of total change and population increase. Corrections are mainly adjustments made later to errors occurring in handling of notices of removal. In general, the move has taken place a very long time ago, in which case changing the information by a notice of removal would not make sense, or the person is known to have moved at some point but no information has been obtained on the target domicile. |
|
|||
No comments. |
|
|||
|
|||