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Concepts and definitions

Residential building

In these statistics, residential buildings refer to the main categories of Residential buildings (A) and Free-time residential buildings (B) in Statistics Finland's classification of buildings. These are divided into the following sub-categories:

  • detached houses: one and two-dwelling houses, semi-detached houses and other detached and semi-detached houses.
  • terraced houses: rowhouses, terraced houses and other attached houses
  • blocks of flats: balcony-access blocks and houses with at least three dwellings of which at least two are on top of each other.
  • free-time residential buildings: detached summer cottages or free-time residences mainly intended for private use.

Referencing instructions:

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): In-service training statistics [e-publication].
Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.11.2024].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/heko/kas_en.html