Adoptions

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Number of domestic adoptions fell slightly in 2011 31 May 2012 According to Statistics Finland, adoptions in Finland in 2011 numbered 465, which was 20 fewer than one year earlier. Especially domestic adoptions decreased, as their number was 253, or 40 lower than in the year before. Internal adoptions within families of registered same-sex partnerships decreased in particular, as they numbered 90 last year. In 2010, internal adoptions within families numbered 122 and in the year before it 15. Next release: 31 May 2013
Description:	The statistics on adoptions contain data about children adopted from Finland or abroad by a person or persons permanently resident in Finland. There may be either one or two adoptive parents. A new spouse of a child’s biological parent may also adopt his or her stepchild(ren). Data on adoptions are produced by the age, gender and country of birth of adopted children. Read full description >>>
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Adoptions [e-publication].
ISSN=1797-738X. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.5.2013].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/adopt/index_en.html.

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