http://www.stat.fi Latest statistical releases from Statistics Finland en http://www.stat.fi/favicon.png http://www.stat.fi 32 32 http://www.stat.fi/til/ava/2012/02/ava_2012_02_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, English was the most commonly studied foreign language on grades 1 to 6 of comprehensive school in the autumn semester of 2012. Sixty-six per cent of the pupils attending grades 1 to 6 studied English either as a compulsory or optional foreign language. The percentages of pupils studying other foreign languages remained at 5 per cent or below. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/ava/2012/02/ava_2012_02_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/rakke/2012/rakke_2012_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, there were a total of 496,200 free-time residences at the end of 2012. Municipal mergers changed the order of municipalities with most free-time residences. Measured by the number of free-time residences the biggest municipalities after the municipal mergers were Mikkeli and Kuopio, while in the year before the largest number of free-time residences was found in Parainen. Mikkeli's number of free-time residences grew as a result of municipal mergers with Ristiina and Suomenniemi at the beginning of 2013. The municipal merger with Nilsiä increased the number of free-time residences in Kuopio. As a result of municipal mergers, the number of free-time residences in many towns described the number of free-time residences in the area rather than the number of free-time residences in the actual town. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/rakke/2012/rakke_2012_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/perh/2012/perh_2012_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html The number of families with at least four underage children has remained quite stable in recent years and annual changes are small, a few hundred either way. In 2012, the number of families with at least four children grew by around one hundred families from the year before. The trend of the number of families with two and three children is falling and the number of families with one child has remained almost unchanged. At the end of 2012, an average of 1.83 underage children were living in families with children. The family statistics describe the size of families in Finland at a given moment and thus do not concern with the eventual number of children in families. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/perh/2012/perh_2012_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/thi/2013/04/thi_2013_04_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, producer prices for manufactured products fell by an average of 0.5 per cent from April 2012 to April 2013. Producer prices for manufactured products sold on the domestic market rose by 0.5 per cent, while the producer prices of export products went down by 1.8 per cent. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/thi/2013/04/thi_2013_04_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/asvu/2013/01/asvu_2013_01_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html During the first quarter of 2013, the year-on-year increase in rents was 3.6 per cent. The rents of non-subsidised rental dwellings went up by an average of 3.7 per cent in the whole country. In the Greater Helsinki Area the rents of non-subsidised rental dwellings went up by 4.0 per cent and in the rest of Finland by 3.5 per cent. The rents of government subsidised dwellings rose by 3.5 per cent in the whole country. Compared to the previous quarter, the rents of non-subsidised dwellings increased by an average of 1.3 per cent and the rents of government subsidised dwellings by 0.9 per cent. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/asvu/2013/01/asvu_2013_01_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/klv/2013/04/klv_2013_04_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html According to the retail trade flash estimate, retail trade sales increased by 2.0 per cent in April 2013 from April 2012. Over the same time period, the volume of sales, from which the impact of prices has been eliminated, went up by 0.4 per cent. In daily consumer goods trade, sales grew by 0.4 per cent in April but the volume of sales decreased by 3.6 per cent from the respective period of the year before. According to the Business Register, the share of daily consumer goods of turnover in retail trade was 47 per cent in 2011. In 2013, Easter was in March while in 2012 it was in April. Therefore, there were 25 trading days in April this year while there were two less in April last year. Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/klv/2013/04/klv_2013_04_2013-05-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2013/04/vamuu_2013_04_2013-05-23_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, Finland's population at the end of April was 5,432,305. Over the January to April period, Finland's population increased by 5,650 persons, which is 100 persons less than for the corresponding period of the year before. The main reason for the population increase was migration gain from abroad: the number of immigrants was 4,700 higher than that of emigrants. Natural population growth, or excess of births to deaths, was 950 persons. Thu, 23 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/vamuu/2013/04/vamuu_2013_04_2013-05-23_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/ton/2013/04/ton_2013_04_2013-05-23_tie_001_en.html According to preliminary data of Statistics Finland, 265 accidents involving personal injury happened in road traffic in April. In them, 19 persons were killed and 317 persons injured. The number of persons killed was four higher and that of persons injured 82 lower than in April 2012. Thu, 23 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/ton/2013/04/ton_2013_04_2013-05-23_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tjt/2011/05/tjt_2011_05_2013-05-22_tie_001_en.html Income differentials in Finland are still smaller than the European average even though they grew relatively rapidly by international comparison in the late 1990s. In 2010, the smallest relative income differentials in Europe were found in Norway and Iceland and the largest in Latvia and Bulgaria. In Finland, the average income of the highest-income decile was 5.3-fold that of the lowest-income decile in 2010, while in the countries with the highest income differentials it was more than tenfold. These data derive from the results of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), where Finland's data are based on Statistics Finlands income distribution statistics. Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tjt/2011/05/tjt_2011_05_2013-05-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/asas/2012/asas_2012_2013-05-22_tie_001_en.html At the end of 2012, there were a total of 2,580,000 households in Finland, of which a majority (74 per cent) were small, one or two-person households. According to Statistics Finland the number of one-person households increased by 17,000 and that of two-person households by 9,000 from the previous year. The number of larger households with at least three persons decreased from 2011. A household-dwelling unit is formed by all persons living permanently at the same dwelling. Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/asas/2012/asas_2012_2013-05-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tyti/2013/04/tyti_2013_04_2013-05-21_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finlands Labour Force Survey, the number of unemployed persons in April 2013 was 239,000, which was 13,000 higher than one year ago. The unemployment rate was 8.8 per cent, having been 8.4 per cent in April of the year before. The number of employed persons was unchanged from April of the previous year. Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tyti/2013/04/tyti_2013_04_2013-05-21_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/jate/2011/jate_2011_2013-05-17_tie_001_en.html Waste treatment is going through a powerful period of change. In 2011, 22 per cent more waste was incinerated than in the year before, amounting to over ten million tonnes. Wood residue of manufacturing and other production and municipal waste were used to produce over ten per cent of total energy consumption and over one fifth if black liquor from the forest industry is included. Waste was also recycled more than one year previously. The amount of recycled waste rose by 18 per cent, to nearly 34 million tonnes. In contrast, 19 per cent less waste was placed at landfill sites or long-term deposits than in the year before. Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/jate/2011/jate_2011_2013-05-17_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/khki/2012/khki_2012_2013-05-16_tie_001_en.html Preliminary total greenhouse gas emissions in 2012 amounted to 61.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (t CO2 eq.). According to preliminary data, total emissions in 2012 decreased by some eight per cent (six million t CO2 eq.) from 2011. The energy sector's emissions diminished by around nine per cent. This was mainly due to reduced consumption of coal and peat and increased net imports of electricity. Thu, 16 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/khki/2012/khki_2012_2013-05-16_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/matk/2013/03/matk_2013_03_2013-05-16_tie_001_en.html The number of recorded nights spent by foreign tourists at Finnish accommodation establishments in March 2013 was 467,000, which is 3.7 per cent more than in March 2012. The number of nights spent by resident tourists went down by 1.4 per cent and totalled nearly 1.3 million overnight stays. The total number of nights spent remained on level with the previous year and altogether good 1.7 million overnight stays were recorded at accommodation establishments in March 2013. These figures are preliminary data from Statistics Finlands statistics on accommodation establishments and they have been collected from accommodation establishments with at least 20 beds or caravan pitches with electricity connection, and youth hostels. Thu, 16 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/matk/2013/03/matk_2013_03_2013-05-16_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/ktkk/2013/03/ktkk_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html Seasonally adjusted output grew by 1.0 per cent in March from the month before. Adjusted for working days, output fell by 0.4 per cent from the level of the previous year's corresponding month. March 2013 had two working days less than the corresponding month of the previous year. According to revised data, working-day adjusted output fell in February by 2.8 per cent (previously -2.9 per cent) from February 2012. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/ktkk/2013/03/ktkk_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/klv/2013/03/klv_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_002_en.html According to Statistics Finland, retail trade sales went down by 0.4 per cent in March from March 2012. The volume of retail trade sales, from which the impact of prices has been eliminated, contracted by 1.7 per cent over the same period. In daily consumer goods trade, sales grew by 3.2 per cent from the corresponding period of the previous year, while sales in department store trade went down by 2.3 per cent. Wholesale trade sales went down by 4.0 per cent and motor vehicle trade sales by 47.3 per cent from twelve months back. The fall in motor vehicle trade sales was due to the strong growth during the reference period, which anticipated the amendment in the motor vehicle tax legislation. In total trade, sales contracted by 11.7 per cent in March. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/klv/2013/03/klv_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_002_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tlv/2013/02/tlv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, turnover in manufacturing in the December to February period was 6.7 per cent lower than in the corresponding period of the year before. Domestic sales contracted by 8.4 per cent and export turnover by 5.3 per cent from one year ago. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tlv/2013/02/tlv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/plv/2013/02/plv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html Turnover in service industries grew by 1.5 per cent in December to February from the corresponding time period of the year before. One year previously turnover in service industries grew by 6.3 per cent. Services are here examined exclusive of trade. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/plv/2013/02/plv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/rlv/2013/02/rlv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html Turnover of construction enterprises contracted by 3.8 per cent in December to February from the year before. The turnover of civil engineering fell by 10.6 per cent and that of construction of buildings by 4.6 per cent. The turnover of specialised construction activities decreased by 1.1 per cent. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/rlv/2013/02/rlv_2013_02_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/ktps/2013/03/ktps_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy was 1.1 per cent greater in the past January to March period than in the corresponding period twelve months earlier. In March alone, the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy grew by 0.5 per cent year-on-year. In the January to March period one year ago, the wages and salaries sum grew by 5.5 per cent. Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/ktps/2013/03/ktps_2013_03_2013-05-15_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kans/2012/kans_2012_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, Finnish citizenship was granted in 2012 to 9,090 foreign citizens permanently resident in Finland. This is the highest figure during Finland's independence and as much as 4,530 higher than in 2011. Ninety-four per cent of those having been granted Finnish citizenship retained their former citizenship. Of the persons receiving Finnish citizenship, 4,970 were women and 4,120 men. Among the persons having been granted Finnish citizenship, 2,510 were aged 14 or under and 170 were aged 65 or over. Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kans/2012/kans_2012_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/rki/2013/04/rki_2013_04_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html Building costs were 1.4 per cent higher in April 2013 than in April 2012. The prices of labour inputs in construction went up by one per cent, the prices of materials by 1.6 per cent and those of other inputs by 1.8 per cent from one year ago. This is indicated by Statistics Finland's Building Cost Index 2010=100. Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/rki/2013/04/rki_2013_04_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/khi/2013/04/khi_2013_04_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html The year-on-year change in consumer prices, i.e. inflation, calculated by Statistics Finland slowed down to 1.5 per cent in April. In March it stood at 1.7 per cent. Inflation slowed down primarily because the effect of the rise in the vehicle tax a year ago faded and prices of energy lowered. Starting from January, the Consumer Price Index is a chain index, where the commodity basket and weights are updated annually. Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/khi/2013/04/khi_2013_04_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tymm/2011/tymm_2011_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html Environmental protection investments in industry increased from the previous years and amounted to close on EUR 260 million in 2011. Of the sectors of industry, the biggest investors were energy production and the chemical industry. Environmental protection investments were allocated most to air protection and waste management and soil protection. Of all environmental protection expenditure in industry, the biggest part was formed by operating expenditure caused by environmental protection, most of which consists of the operating and maintenance costs of environmental protection equipment. Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tymm/2011/tymm_2011_2013-05-14_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/ttvi/2013/03/ttvi_2013_03_2013-05-10_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, output of total industries adjusted for working days was 0.3 per cent lower in March 2013 than twelve months earlier. In the first quarter of 2013, industrial output adjusted for working days went down by three per cent from one year ago. Fri, 10 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/ttvi/2013/03/ttvi_2013_03_2013-05-10_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/teul/2013/03/teul_2013_03_2013-05-10_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, the value of new orders in manufacturing was 11.3 per cent lower in March 2013 than twelve months earlier. In the January to March period, new orders decreased by 10.0 per cent year-on-year. Fri, 10 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/teul/2013/03/teul_2013_03_2013-05-10_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kotal/2011/kotal_2011_2013-05-08_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, current expenditure on the regular education system increased by 3.5 per cent in 2011 compared with the previous year. Current expenditure on the regular education system totalled EUR 11.9 billion in 2011. Expenditure on comprehensive school education constitutes the biggest proportion of the current expenditure on the regular education system. Expenditure on comprehensive school education was EUR 4.2 billion in 2011. The next biggest proportions were university education and research, on which EUR 2.3 billion was expended, and vocational education on which EUR 1.7 billion was spent. Wed, 08 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kotal/2011/kotal_2011_2013-05-08_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/kttav/2012/kttav_2012_2013-05-08_tie_001_en.html Measured by tonnes, six per cent less goods were transported by lorries in domestic and international transport in 2012 than in the previous year. The volume of tonne-kilometres was five per cent lower. These data derive from the statistics on goods transport by road compiled by Statistics Finland. Wed, 08 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/kttav/2012/kttav_2012_2013-05-08_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/rato/2012/06/rato_2012_06_2013-05-07_tie_001_en.html Corrected on 7 May 2013 at 12.00. The correction is indicated in red. Was previously billion. In 2012, the value of sales charged on domestic credit cards amounted to EUR 8.9 billion in Finland. The sales increased by 8 per cent from the previous year. Retail shops accounted for the largest share and service stations for the second largest share of the card sales. Cash withdrawals and bank transfers made on domestic credit cards in Finland fell by good 5 per cent to EUR 1.2 billion. These data derive from Statistics Finlands Financial intermediation statistics. Tue, 07 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/rato/2012/06/rato_2012_06_2013-05-07_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/merek/2013/04/merek_2013_04_2013-05-07_tie_001_en.html In April 2013 a total of 18,074 new motor vehicles were registered, of which 10,979 were automobiles. First registrations increased by 44.1 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year. In April the number of new passenger cars registered was 9,850, which was 142.6 per cent up from the year before. The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 36.2 per cent. The increase of new registered cars was due to automobile taxes which changed 1.4.2012. The number of passenger cars first registered in April has been on average approximately 12,000 during the 2000s. These data are based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency and they have been produced by Statistics Finland. The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands. Tue, 07 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/merek/2013/04/merek_2013_04_2013-05-07_tie_001_en.html