Police Barometer

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You have received your survey username and password in a letter. Take out your ID, and click on the button above to go to the reply page. Alternatively, you can read the QR code in the letter to go directly to the form.

If you have received a text message or email from us, you can also follow the instructions. There is no need to prepare in advance.

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 people living in Finland and their life situations.

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.

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.

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.

We are interested in your experiences and opinions because you represent your area and age group in the survey. We want to ensure that all population groups are heard in the survey.

If you respond online, you will get a link at the end of the survey. Through the link you can learn more from data collected by Statistics Finland concerning your area of residence. 

The contact details of individual respondents are the address, email and telephone number
as well as corresponding information in the names of members of the same household. The data derive from the Population Information System and from those authorities from which data are obtained based on the Statistics Act. In addition, contact details are obtained from public sources, such as telephone operators.

Statistics Finland is also entitled to receive for surveys the contact information of persons who have a ban on direct marketing.