Quality report: Effective Retirement Age
1. Contact
1.1 Contact organisation
The Finnish Centre for Pensions
1.2 Contact organisation unit
Planning Department
1.3 Contact name
1.4 Contact person function
Statistical expert
1.5 Contact mail address
The Finnish Centre for Pensions
FI-00065 ELÄKETURVAKESKUS
Finland
1.6 Contact email address
firstname.lastname@etk.fi
Contact form
1.7 Contact phone number
+358 29 411 20
1.8 Contact fax number
Fax: +358 9 148 1172
2. Metadata update
2.1. Metadata last certified
10 February 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
10 February 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
10 February 2025
3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description
3.2. Classification system
3.3. Sector coverage
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
Concepts and definitions have been presented on the statistics page.
3.5. Statistical unit
3.6. Statistical population
3.7. Reference area
Finland
3.8. Time coverage
The statistics have been compiled since 2003, and time series have been produced retrospectively back to 1996. Private sector time series extend to 1983.
4. Unit of measure
5. Reference period
Calendar year
6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements
The Act on the Finnish Centre for Pensions states that one of the responsibilities of the institution is to compile statistics in its field of operations.
6.2. Data sharing
7. Confidentiality
7.1. Confidentiality – policy
The Finnish Centre for Pensions is committed to data protection as a fundamental principle of statistics, which ensures the confidentiality of data.
7.2. Confidentiality – data treatment
Data is protected by the necessary physical and technical solutions at the various stages of processing. Personnel have access only to the data necessary for their work. Third parties do not have access to the premises where the data is processed. Employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement when they are hired.
8. Release Policy
The statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions are released on weekdays at 9.00 a.m. on the website of the Finnish Centre for Pensions. Any exceptions to the release time are announced separately.
The data in the statistical database are released as open data. The database’s open interface can be freely used under the CC BY 4.0 licence, with the Finnich Centre for Pensions being cited as the source of the statistical data.
8.1. Release Calendar
The release dates of the statistics are published in the release calendar. The release calendar for the following year is published towards the end of the year.
8.2. Release calendar access
8.3. User access
The statistics are available to everyone when they are published on the website of the Finnish Centre for Pensions at a previously announced date.
Embargo policy: Media that are bound by the journalist’s guidelines may request material from the Finnish Centre for Pensions’ Communications Department.
9. Frequency of dissemination
The statistics are published once a year.
10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release
The releases of the statistics can be found in the shared open repository Julkari.
Effective retirement age (Julkari).
Press releases on this topic can be found online at the website of the statistics.
10.2. Publications
10.3. Online database
Effective retirement age (PxWeb)
10.4. Microdata access
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10.5. Other
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10.6. Documentation on methodology
11. Quality Management
11.1. Quality assurance
The Finnish Centre for Pensions is committed to the quality principles of Official Statistics of Finland. Our statistical production follows the quality criteria of Official Statistics of Finland, which are compatible with the European Statistics Code of Practice.
11.2. Quality assessment
The quality of statistics is assessed at several stages in the statistical process.
12. Relevance
12.1. User needs
Feedback from users is gathered through customer surveys. Feedback is also collected through direct contact. The feedback received is monitored and taken into account in the development of the statistics.
13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy
13.2. Sampling error
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13.3. Non-sampling error
14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness
15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability – geographical
15.2. Comparability – over time
Year-by-year changes in earnings-related pension legislation
15.3. Coherence – cross domain
15.4. Coherence – internal
The figures presented in the statistics are consistent with those in the statistics on Earnings-related pension recipients in Finland and Persons insured for an earnings-related pension in Finland.
Changes in earnings-related pension legislation must be taken into account when interpreting the statistics.
16. Cost and burden
The production of the statistics is financed annually by the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
17. Data Revision
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18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data
18.2. Frequency of data collection
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18.3. Data collection
Administrative registers.