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Appendix table 6. Persons suspected of offences and the entire population by socio-economic status, aged 15 years and over

Offences 1)		Total 2)	Self-employed persons	Lower and upper-level employees	Workers	Students	Pensioners	Other, unknown
ALL OFFENCES	Persons suspected	256 929	12 736	27 038	41 432	43 357	24 590	107 776
	%	100,0	5,0	10,5	16,1	16,9	9,6	41,9
Theft offences	Persons suspected	50 643	712	3 057	4 164	8 828	6 290	27 592
	%	100,0	1,4	6,0	8,2	17,4	12,4	54,5
Robbery offences	Persons suspected	1 341	26	75	132	289	115	704
	%	100,0	1,9	5,6	9,8	21,6	8,6	52,5
Embezzlement offences	Persons suspected	1 480	161	347	237	145	148	442
	%	100,0	10,9	23,4	16,0	9,8	10,0	29,9
Frauds, means of payment frauds	Persons suspected	18 102	678	1 736	2 313	3 143	1 747	8 485
	%	100,0	3,7	9,6	12,8	17,4	9,7	46,9
Tax offences	Persons suspected	1 168	209	182	208	42	136	391
	%	100,0	17,9	15,6	17,8	3,6	11,6	33,5
Forgery offences	Persons suspected	3 734	139	494	419	469	249	1 964
	%	100,0	3,7	13,2	11,2	12,6	6,7	52,6
Dishonesty by a debtor	Persons suspected	664	163	149	107	19	41	185
	%	100,0	24,5	22,4	16,1	2,9	6,2	27,9
Homicides and attempts thereof	Persons suspected	447	13	30	62	73	71	198
	%	100,0	2,9	6,7	13,9	16,3	15,9	44,3
Assault offences	Persons suspected	30 632	1 594	3 539	7 054	4 898	2 577	10 970
	%	100,0	5,2	11,6	23,0	16,0	8,4	35,8
Rape offences	Persons suspected	1 299	74	74	721	113	54	263
	%	100,0	5,7	5,7	55,5	8,7	4,2	20,2
Drunken driving	Persons suspected	18 254	1 037	2 137	3 938	2 289	2 036	6 817
	%	100,0	5,7	11,7	21,6	12,5	11,2	37,3
Narcotics offences	Persons suspected	18 488	404	1 419	2 491	3 746	976	9 452
	%	100,0	2,2	7,7	13,5	20,3	5,3	51,1
ENTIRE POPULATION	Persons suspected	4 512 285	255 245	1 413 551	750 838	423 491	1 247 413	421 747
	%	100,0	5,7	31,3	16,6	9,4	27,6	9,3

1) Excl. endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction.
2) The data in appendix tables 5-8 differ due to the sampling times of the background data. Not all population data is avail-able for all persons suspected of offences. The population data of appendix table 6 depicting socio-economic status are from 2010. In the other appendix tables the population data are from 2011.

Source: Offences known to the police 2012. Statistics Finland

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Updated 2.4.2013