Inquiry on Establishments of the Municipalities

The new Industrial Classification TOL 2025 will enter into force in 2025.

The Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2025 is the data collection and description framework of statistics describing economic activities. It is used in statistics describing
different areas of the economy, such as production and employment, and in national
accounts statistics.

More information Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2025 / Statistics Finland

Statistics Finland maintains a register in which data is collected about the establishments
maintained by the municipalities and municipal associations operating in Finland, the activition of the establishments, industries, person year and their location.

The data are used for the maintenance of the Business Register and for the preparation of statistics describing the structures and development of business activities, services and
workplaces. The data will also be used in the preparation of national accounts and to support social decision-making.

An establishment is a unit owned by one organisation, located at one address in Finland and operating in one industry.

If there are operations of several different industries at the same address, they are reported as separate establishments, such as

• kindergarten and school
• food service and cleaning service

The person year describes the employee's work input converted to full-time. A person who has worked permanently or temporarily, whose work input is compensated as salary income, is counted as a wage earner.

Employees to whom the enterprise has paid a salary are included in the person years. The work input of employees who were laid off or on unpaid leave during the year is reported for the period for which they were paid. An employee who has worked full-time for a year corresponds to 1 person year. Part-time employees are reported as converted to full-time.

For example:

• six months of full-time work or half-time work that lasted a whole year corresponds to 0.5 person-years of work
• eight months of 60% work corresponds to 0.4 person-years of work (0.6 * 8 months/12 months = 0.4)