News 21 Jun 2016

Official Statistics of Finland provides impartial information on society

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF) are a comprehensive collection of statistics describing the development and state of society. They comprise nearly 300 sets of statistics. You recognise these types of statistics from the logo of the Official Statistics of Finland that has just been updated.

Official Statistics of Finland are produced by independent and self-governing government agencies and institutions, 12 different organisations in total.

A majority of the data for the statistics are derived from existing registers of general government. Data are collected directly from data providers when they cannot be obtained otherwise.

If you have been selected into the sample of a data collection, by responding you can contribute to social decision-making and description being based on high-quality and reliable statistical data.

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF)

Supply of data