Quality report: Persons Insured for an Earnings-related Pension in Finland
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
2.2. Metadata last posted
2.3. Metadata last update
3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description
3.2. Classification system
3.3. Sector coverage
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The 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
4. Unit of measure
5. Reference period
Calendar year and 31 December
6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements
The Act on the Finnish Centre for Pensions states that the Finnish Centre for Pensions is responsible for statistical activities within its field of competence.
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 license, 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
10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release
The releases of the statistics can be found in the shared open repository Julkari: Persons Insured for an Earnings-related Pension in Finland (Julkari).
Press releases on this topic can be found online at the website of the statistics.
10.2. Publications
Persons insured for an earnings-related pension in Finland (Julkari)
Persons insured for an earnings-related pension in Finland, 2013–2020 (Julkari)
Pensioners and insured in Finland, 2005–2013 (Julkari)
10.3. Online database
Persons insured for earnings-related pension (PxWeb)
10.4. Microdata access
At the Finnish Centre for Pensions, we can extract research material from our registers for scientific research. We disclose the data in compliance with the principles of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities and the Data Protection Act. As a rule, we do not disclose register data for commercial purposes. The scientific research must be identified.
Apply for research access to register data of the Finnish Centre for Pensions (pdf)
10.5. Other
10.6. Documentation on methodology
10.7. Quality documentation
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.
12.2. User satisfaction
12.3. Data completeness
13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy
13.2. Sampling error
13.3. Non-sampling error
13.3.1. Coverage error
13.3.2. Measurement error
13.3.3. Non-Response Error
13.3.4. Processing error
13.3.5. Model assumption error
14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness
14.2. Punctuality
15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability – geographical
15.2. Comparability – over time
15.3. Coherence – cross domain
15.3.1. Coherence – sub annual and annual statistics
15.3.2. Coherence with National Accounts
15.4. Coherence – internal
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
The statistics are based on the registers of the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
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18.3. Data collection
Administrative registers.
18.4. Data validation
Adjustments are made at different stages of statistical production in accordance with the production processes of the Finnish Centre for Pensions. In addition, the results are compared with changes in legislation and with data from previous statistical years.
18.5. Data compilation
Tiedot poimitaan eläketurvakeskuksen rekistereistä. Further processing produces aggregated data and statistical tables.