Travel Survey

The participants in the Travel Survey have been selected at random from the Finnish population aged 15 to 84. Each month, 2,350 respondents are invited to the survey, and they take part in the survey once.

A group of people of different ages living in different areas in Finland have been selected for the survey. You have been selected to represent people of your age living in your area. The selection has been made with statistical methods. The responses provide reliable statistical
data on the travelling of people living in Finland.

No. The respondents have been selected to represent the population of Finland. You have been selected based on your age and area of residence. No one else can replace you. ⁠Your response is needed in order to obtain reliable data for the statistics concerning the population groups you represent.

All trips abroad and domestic overnight trips are travelling. For example, a cottage holiday or a two-day conference trip in Finland are travelling, as is a same-day trip to Tallinn.

Trips to the same destination repeated once a week or more often are not considered to be travelling in this survey. Studying or working in another municipality is not travel either. 

Giving information that you have not made any trips is as important as reporting about trips.

The Travel Survey asks about basic information on trips ending in the previous month. Such are the destination, duration, accommodation, means of transport and costs of trips. It is easy to fill in the information on the web form. Alternatively, you can tell us about your trips in a telephone interview. The questions are not difficult and the interviewer can specify a question if needed.

The data collected in the survey are used for compiling tourism statistics, national accounts and balance of payments, for describing development trends in tourism and as research material.

The data of the Travel Survey are delivered to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European
Union, based on the EU Regulation concerning statistics on tourism (EU 692/2011) and the supplementary Delegated Regulation (EU 2019/1681).

The data of the Travel Survey are used in the following statistics or publications:

• Finnish Travel
• Tourism account
• Tourism balance
• International trade in goods and services
• ⁠Eurostat
• UN Tourism
• OECD

Your responses can be seen at Statistics Finland only by those employees who compile statistics based on the responses. Your data will be treated as strictly confidential and we will ensure your data protection at all stages of the production of the statistics. Every person employed by Statistics Finland has signed a pledge of secrecy.

We publish statistics in the manner that the responses of individual persons cannot be identified from the data.

Your responses are confidential. We never release your responses for administrative decision-making, investigation, surveillance, legal proceedings or similar purposes, such as to the Tax Administration or the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.

We never hand over or sell your contact information outside Statistics Finland.