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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Finland |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Information and Statistical Services |
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1.5. Contact mail address | PO Box 3V, FI-00022 Statistics Finland |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 26/09/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 26/09/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 26/09/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||
The statistics on Finnish Travel contain information on trips made by Finnish residents and on the number of persons having travelled during the year. The statistics describe trips in Finland and abroad including overnight stays and same-day trips abroad. Information on domestic day trips is compiled every three years starting from year 2018. |
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||
National tourism: domestic tourism and outbound tourism (trips made by residents of the reporting country). |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||
The area of reference is Finland. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||
Coverage - Time [data comparable since (YYYY)]
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||
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Not applicable. |
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2022 |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | ||||
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | ||||
According to the EU Regulation on tourism statistics unit-level data on trips is transmitted to Eurostat. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The data protection of data collected for statistical purposes is absolutely guaranteed in accordance with the Statistics Act (280/2004), the Personal Data Act (532/1999) and the Act on the Openness of Government activities (621/1999), as well as the requirements of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679). The data materials are protected at all stages of processing with the necessary physical and technical solutions. Statistics Finland has compiled detailed directions and instructions for confidential processing of the data. Employees have access only to the data essential for their duties. The premises where unit-level data are processed are not accessible to outsiders. Members of the personnel have signed a pledge of secrecy upon entering the service. Wilful breaching of data protection is punishable. http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/meta/tietosuoja/index_en.html |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
An individual person cannot be identified from the data. The data are inflated to the level of the basic population and the numbers of trips are presented at the accuracy of one thousand. Prior to 2012, figures below 10,000 were not published, but they were entered as uncertain data. Starting from 2012, figures under 50,000 are entered as uncertain data. Starting in 2017, figures under 100,000 trips are suppressed in the nationally published tables. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Statistics Finland's release calendar lists in advance all the statistical data and publications to be released over the year. Statistical releases can be found under statistics-specific releases. Statistical data are released on the Internet at 8 am, unless otherwise indicated. The calendar is updated on weekdays. Statistics Finland's release calendar for the coming year is published every year in December. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Finnish Travel Survey release calendar: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/smat. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Statistical data are available to all simultaneously at the time of release. The data required by the regulation are disseminated after the annual release. |
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Annual release once a year and preliminary data three times per year for the tourism periods: winter (January to April), summer (May to August), autumn (September to December). Preliminary data do not as a rule become revised. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Finnish Travel Survey home page: https://stat.fi/en/statistics/smat |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Finnish Travel Survey publications (html): https://stat.fi/en/statistics/smat#pastPublications |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Finnish Travel Survey StatFin databases: https://pxweb2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__smat/?tablelist=true |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Unit-level data can be obtained for scientific research by applying for a licence to use statistical data. The data contain no identifying personal data. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Additional national indicators:
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Description of the Finnish Travel Survey: http://www.stat.fi/meta/til/smat_en.html |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Finnish Travel Survey quality description: http://www.stat.fi/til/smat/laa_en.html |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||
When compiling statistics, Statistics Finland observes the European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP) and the Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) based on them. The Code of Practice concerns the independence and accountability of statistical authorities and the quality of processes and data to be published. The principles are in line with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics approved by the United Nations Statistics Division and are supplementary to them. The quality criteria of Official Statistics of Finland are also compatible with the European Statistics Code of Practice. The principles are also compatible with those of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). More information about this is available on Statistics Finland's pages on quality management. Every year Statistics Finland conducts statistical auditing that helps to ensure the quality of statistics. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | ||||
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | ||||
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12.3. Completeness | ||||
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-response is the main source of error in the statistics. As the non-response rate grows, the weighting coefficients increase. The respondents represent the entire target population even though the travel behaviour of non-responding persons is unknown and may differ from those having responded. The non-response rate is annually approximately 50 per cent. Random variation caused by sampling is described by means of confidence intervals calculated for the annual estimates of trips and persons having travelled. The Confidence Limits in Finnish Travel Survey by type of trip in year 2020 are presented in a table in the quality description. The reporting of individual trips may also be affected by the respondent not remembering the trip or interpreting the definition of trip differently. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.2.1 Sampling errors - indicators
Annexes: 13.2 Sampling error |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13.3.1 Coverage errors
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14.1. Timeliness | ||||||
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14.2. Punctuality | ||||||
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||
The sample is drawn from a regionally sorted population frame, ensuring that fewer target persons also come from sparsely populated areas than from densely populated areas. The target person’s area of residence is also considered in the post-stratification and calculation of weighting coefficients for the target person. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||
The Finnish Travel Survey compiles statistics on the demand for tourism. The supply of tourism in Finland is described in Statistics Finland's monthly and annually published accommodation statistics. The statistics contain data on the accommodation capacity of hotels and its use and overnight stays at accommodation establishments broken down by the visitors' country of residence. Finnish travel and accommodation statistics partly overlap for domestic trips in paid accommodation. There are, however, differences in the target groups between these two. Accommodation statistics include only establishments with at least 20 beds while the statistics on Finnish travel include all paid accommodation used by Finns. Accommodation statistics include overnight stays by Finns of all ages, while the statistics on Finnish travel include only overnight stays by Finns aged 15 to 84. Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a statistical system where the economic impacts of tourism are described in a versatile and comprehensive manner. Tourism accounts are published on the webpage of Visit Finland’s Statistics Service Rudolf. Statistics on passenger transport between Finland and other countries are compiled on sea transport by the Finnish Transport Agency and on air transport by Finavia. However, these statistics do not report the country of residence of the travellers. The Association of Finnish Travel Agents (AFTA) publishes yearly on its website statistics on leisure package tours made by air and their market shares, which provide information about the number of trips bought through travel agencies by country of destination. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||
The data contents are internally coherent. |
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Restricted from publication |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Data are revised only when errors occur. The revision policies:
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
The figures for each third of the year are published as preliminary data. The annual data are published final when first released and are not subject to revisions. Major changes in methodology are notified in advance, while information on minor methodological changes is provided in methodological explanations and on the Statistical Office's web page. The first published estimates are usually the same as the final numbers. |
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18.1. Source data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.1.1. Source data
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18.3. Data collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.3.1. Type of survey
Annexes: Finnish Travel 2022_fi_sv_en |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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[Optional] |
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