The maintenance break takes place on the third Tuesday of each month. Active maintenance work is carried out from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., but automated updates of the machines begin as early as 5:00 a.m.
On Tuesday September 30th 2025 13:00-16:00 there will be additional maintenance work in Fiona which may cause minor breaks in active sessions. In such cases users are advised to sign out and then sign in again.
The outage is expected to last no longer than 5 minutes. Unsaved work will be lost during the outage, and any ongoing sessions will be interrupted.
Suomi.fi-identification in our e-services to change: Users will be prompted to activate Suomi.fi Messages once they have identified themselves
As of 12 May 2025, you will be prompted to activate Suomi.fi Messages when you identify yourself with strong identification in the e-service of either Statistics Finland or another authority. The aim of the change is to encourage people to switch over to receiving official mail primarily electronically.
More information: https://suomi.fi/en/messages
Further information on Suomi.fi e-Identification: https://www.suomi.fi/instructions-and-support/identification/what-is-suomifi-e-identification
(May 8, 2025)
Due to licencing cost and management reasons, SAS will be discontinued for Fiona's research projects on March 31, 2026. The existing SAS codes and data must therefore be modified for other Fiona platforms. The use of the microsimulation model will continue on SAS for the time being, until the model is converted to another platform.
(January 29, 2025)
A new spot-checking tool for results is now being introduced in Fiona remote access, replacing result transfer requests sent by email. Instructions for using the tool can be found in the guidelines available in Fiona. This change does not affect microsimulation users.
The feature is first introduced to Windows machines with Linux users following up in January 2025. Guides can be found in Fiona in