The data

Ready-made research data

Ready-formed data files for research provide a diversified information basis for studying the characteristics and development of business activities in Finland. Available are the following data and their combinations.

Enterprise level data

Enterprise level statistical files of the Business Register: Basic information on activity, such as turnover and personnel
Group Register data
Financial statement data panel: Enterprises' profit and loss account and balance sheet data as well as key figures of financial statements
R&D panel: Enterprises' research and development
Innovation data: Enterprises' innovation activity
ICT panels: Use of ICT and the Internet in enterprises
Patent data: Enterprises' patents
Business Aid Database: Business subsidies

Establishment level data

Establishment level statistical files of the Business Register: Basic information on activity, such as turnover and personnel
Establishment panel of manufacturing statistics: Information on manufacturing production
Establishment based employee and job flow data: Establishment level data on inflows and outflows of personnel by source and target
Establishment/enterprise based data on personnel and wages and salaries: Data on e.g. wages and salaries, work experience, education and age of personnel
Inquiry on fixed assets and technology in manufacturing: Replacement value and service life of establishments' fixed assets and use of IT in production
Commodity statistics: Data on value and volume of products and raw materials by establishment

Individual level data

Combined employer-employee data, or so-called FLEED (Finnish Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data): Contains background information on population of working age, which can be combined with enterprise and establishment level data.

Announcement about replacing FLEED with FOLK-modules

The updating of FLEED data set (Finnish Longitudinal Employer–Employee Data) will be discontinued after the statistical year 2016. In practice, this means that the FLEED data set will be updated for the last time at the end of the year 2018 and published at the beginning of the year 2019.

New FOLK-modules include mostly the same variables as FLEED but also new information for instance about degrees and income. The descriptions of FOLK-modules are available at Taika (taika.stat.fi). No new licenses will be granted after 31 August 2018 for FLEED data set. After the last update of the data, the product support and the maintenance of the descriptions are also terminated. Research services have published a FLEED-FOLK key file (PDF) for checking from which FOLK module each FLEED variable can be found.

Data on structure of earnings: Detailed data on employees' earnings and their formation as well as background information on the employer.

Additionally, the available material includes certain industry-specific data files on e.g. producer prices, as well as the OECD's STAN database, and conversion keys for economic activity categories and municipal mergers. Other data of Statistics Finland on business enterprises that may also interest you:

Enterprise level data
Data on business trends

Register data related to persons and housing

Register data related to individual persons and housing provide extensive scope for the forming of a variety of tailored data files for research. The files can be formed from data on the following topics:

Population (statistics on e.g. families, dwellings and housing conditions, buildings and free-time residences and employment)
Education
Justice
Income and consumption (taxable income, income distribution statistics)
Wages, salaries and labour costs
Causes of death

Interview data related to population and living conditions

The following most essential interview data describing the population and living conditions have been made into service data files, which Statistics Finland offers for research use:

Further information about these service data files is available on our website from the pages dedicated to each of these surveys.

All inquiries regarding the data: tutkijapalvelut@stat.fi.