Official statistics are produced by expert organisations in public administration. They guarantee the continuation of statistics and are committed to common quality criteria.
The Statistics Act (280/2004) defines four statistical authorities:
- Statistics Finland
- the Natural Resources Institute Finland
- the National Institute for Health and Welfare
- Finnish Customs.
Statistical authorities have the mandate to collect data for statistical purposes by virtue of the obligation to provide data decreed in the Finnish Statistics Act.
In addition to the statistical authorities, other authorities producing official statistics include
- the Finnish Meteorological Institute
- the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom
- the National Land Survey of Finland
- the Finnish Immigration Service
- the Finnish Environment Institute
- KEHA Centre (Development and Administrative Services Centre)
- the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
In addition, the Finnish Centre for Pensions and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland act as producers of official statistics outside the budget economy of the state.
Producers of statistics
Statistical principles and quality
Producers of official statistics follow in their statistics production
- The principles of official statistics approved by the United Nations Statistics Division (UN)
- The European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP) (Eurostat)
- Professional ethics
- The UN’s Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM)
- The recommendations of the Advisory Board of Official Statistics of Finland.
Release calendars of producers of statistics
Publishing of official statistics and publications is monitored by means of continuously updated release calendars on the web. Each producer is responsible for its own release calendar.