Quality report: Rehabilitation
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
31 May 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
31 May 2024
2.3. Metadata last update
31 May 2024
3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description
The statistics contain information on vocational rehabilitation under the Finnish earnings-related pension legislation. The statistics cover the whole rehabilitation process from the application for rehabilitation to its completion and the follow-up after rehabilitation.
The statistics include information on rehabilitation applications, rehabilitation decisions, rehabilitees, rehabilitation activities and costs, completed rehabilitation programmes and rehabilitation costs.
3.2. Classification system
The information is broken down by the background of the rehabilitee, that is, whether they were working or retired when they started rehabilitation. Since 2016, the rehabilitation population has also been broken down into those who applied for rehabilitation themselves and those who were granted rehabilitation rights as part of a disability pension decision. Other classifications used in the statistics are age, sex and diagnosis.
3.3. Sector coverage
The statistics cover the rehabilitation of the entire earnings-related pension system. The statistics provide an overview of vocational rehabilitation paid for by private pension providers, company pension funds and industry-wide pension funds, as well as vocational rehabilitation paid for by the public sector. Rehabilitation organised by Kela is not included in the statistics.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The concepts and definitions have been presented on the statistics page.
3.3. Statistical unit
Application for rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation decision.
Person/rehabilitee.
3.6. Statistical population
Rehabilitation applications submitted to earnings-related pension institutions, rehabilitation decisions issued by the institutions and persons who have received vocational rehabilitation paid for by the earnings-related pension system.
3.7. Reference area
Finland
3.8. Time coverage
Basic data are available from 1992.
4. Unit of measure
Number of rehabilitation applications.
Number of rehabilitation decisions.
Number of persons.
Rehabilitation costs, €.
Income support, €/month.
5. Reference period
Calendar year and 1 January to 31 June
6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements
The Finnish Centre for Pensions is obliged to compile statistics. 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.
The statistics on rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system are based on the monitoring obligation related to the 1991 reform of rehabilitation legislation (Amendment 612/1991 to the Employees’ Pensions Act). The right to earnings-related pension rehabilitation is regulated by the earnings-related pension acts listed in Article 3 of the Employees Pensions Act (395/2006).
6.2. Data sharing
Data from the statistics are submitted annually to the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare for the statistics of the EU System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS) and to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland for the EU Commission’s labour market policy database.
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.
The statistics are distributed annually to the earnings-related pension institutions in the form of institution-specific tables and visualisations.
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 twice a year.
Half-yearly data for the current year (1 January–30 June) are published in the autumn. Annual data are published in May–June of the year following the statistical reference year.
10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release
The publications of the statistics can be found in the shared open repository Julkari: Rehabilitation (Julkari)
10.2. Publications
Key Figures: Vocational rehabilitees
10.3. Online database
Earnings-related pension rehabilitation (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
A collection of graphs (pdf) of the data in the statistics is published on the statistics website.
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.
The Finnish Centre for Pensions applies quality criteria also to the statistics it publishes that are not included in the Official Statistics of Finland.
11.2. Quality assessment
The quality of statistics is assessed at several stages in the statistical process.
12. Relevance
12.1. User needs
The statistics are intended for rehabilitation experts, researchers, the media and others who need information on the subject. The statistics are produced in cooperation with rehabilitation experts from the earnings-related pension institutions. The development of the statistics considers the needs of the users, mainly the earnings-related pension institutions.
12.2. User satisfaction
The information needs and development proposals of rehabilitation experts in earnings-related pension institutions are identified at an annual event organised by the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy
The data are based on administrative registers and data collected separately by earnings-related pension institutions. The source data are at individual level.
13.2. Sampling error
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13.3. Non-sampling error
The data from the pension register are extracted in January and July, so some of the backdated pension decisions may be missing from the statistical data.
The earnings-related pension institutions provide the data extracted from their own systems at the end of January and August, so that data recorded retrospectively after the time of extraction are missing from the data set.
14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness
Half-yearly data on rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system for the current year (1 January–30 June) will be published in the autumn. Annual data are published in May–June of the year following the statistical reference year.
15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability – geographical
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15.2. Comparability – over time
The statistics have been produced on the same basis since 1992 and the data are broadly comparable from that date.
From statistical year 2022 onwards, the sampling criterion for the statistics on rehabilitation decisions has been changed. Data on rehabilitation decisions produced before 2022 are therefore not fully comparable with those produced afterwards. The change did not affect the rejection rate.
15.3. Coherence – cross domain
Differences in the definition of concepts can make comparisons with other statistical data on the same subject difficult.
15.3.1. Coherence – sub annual and annual statistics
The data for the half-yearly and annual statistics are compiled according to the same rules. The Farmers’ Social Insurance Institution (MELA) and the Seafarers’ Pension Fund (MEK) are not involved in the collection of data for the half-yearly statistics.
16. Cost and burden
The Finnish Centre for Pensions stands for the costs of the statistics. The register data of the Finnish Centre for Pensions are supplemented by data collected directly from the earnings-related pension institutions. Only data not available in the Finnish Centre for Pensions’ register are collected from the pension institutions. The institutions send the data to the Finnish Centre for Pensions twice a year according to the guidelines established 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 and on individual-level data collected separately from the earnings-related pension institutions.
The data on rehabilitation decisions needed to compile the statistics are extracted from the pension registers. The data required include preliminary rehabilitation decisions, rejected and approved applications, the way the rehabilitation was initiated, the date of the rehabilitation decision, the rehabilitee’s pension history, disability diagnoses and rehabilitation living costs.
Data on the post-rehabilitation period are extracted from the Incomes Register. This contains data on employment after rehabilitation. The register contains information on the careers on which the earnings-related pension is based: periods of employment and self-employment as well as unpaid periods such as unemployment, education and parenthood.
The information collected directly from the earnings-related pension institutions includes the way rehabilitation was started, the background of the rehabilitee, the rehabilitation measures, the costs of the rehabilitation measures, the compulsory accident insurance contributions for the rehabilitee and the situation after rehabilitation, that is, where the rehabilitation has led. The information is provided in accordance with the guidelines established by the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
The Finnish Centre for Pensions combines the data collected from the earnings-related pension institutions and the register data needed to compile the statistics to form the basis of the rehabilitation statistics.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Twice a year.
18.3. Data collection
The Finnish Centre for Pensions is responsible for data collection. The earnings-related pension institutions send individual-level data on rehabilitation measures and completed rehabilitation to the Finnish Centre for Pensions via a secure e-mail connection. The information is provided according to the guidelines established by the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
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.
Earnings-related pension institutions are involved in data checks during the data compilation phase.
18.5. Data compilation
Combination of person-level data extracted from the registers of the Finnish Centre for Pensions and person-level data collected separately by the earnings-related pension institutions. Further processing produces aggregated data and statistical tables.