Release of the statistics on families was corrected

Date of correction:

Release: families 2021, 30.9.2022

Description of the correction

The number and change of reconstituted families of opposite-sex couples have been corrected in the last paragraph of the release text: “At the end of 2021, there were 49,622 reconstituted families (previously 49,630). The number of reconstituted families fell by 560 families (previously 555 families) from the previous year and was under 50,000 for the first time since 2003.” This part of the text was only in Finnish.

There is also a similar error in the release text of the statistics on families describing the year 2020. The correct data for 2020 are: "At the end of 2020, there were 50,182 reconstituted families. The number of reconstituted families went down by 425 from the previous year." Appendix table 4 of the statistical release for 2020 also contains minor errors on the last row. The correct figures are given in the table below (changes indicated in bold).

Reconstituted families, year 2020

Total

50 182

Married couple

22 966

Cohabiting couple

27 216

Reconstituted families as a proportion of families with children, %

9.0

Mother's children

62 384

Father's children

11 352

Common children

30 620

Children under 18 in reconstituted families

104 356

'Non-common' children as a proportion of children of all families, %

7.2

Children in reconstituted families as a proportion of children of all families, %

10.2

Further information

Marjut Pietiläinen
Senior Researcher
029 551 2798
Minna Wallenius
Senior Statistician
029 551 2749
Joonas Toivola
Senior Statistician
029 551 3355
Auli Hämäläinen
Senior Statistician
029 551 3615