Release of the statistics on occupational accidents corrected

Date of correction:

Statistics: occupational accident statistics

Release: occupational accident statistics 2021, preliminary data, 16.6.2023

corrected database table, identifier and name

Description of the correction

Industry-specific occupational accidents in database tables 129s and 12ay were corrected in M Professional, scientific and technical activities, from which around 100 occupational accidents were missing in each year of the time series. Occupational accidents missing from
industry-specific occupational accidents in 2015 were corrected in each industry. The correction has no effect the annual total numbers of accidents.

The Unknown industry in occupational accidents in 2020 and 2021 became fully revised in N Administrative and support service activities, as a result of which the 16 per cent growth of the industry published in the release of 16 June 2023 was corrected into a growth of 15.5
per cent.

Extra accidents in the age group division in database tables 129s and 12ay were removed from the Unknown category. The correction has no effect the annual total numbers of accidents.

Further information

Mikko Toiviainen
Senior Statistician
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