Statistics Finland provides data on citizens' full lifecycles from birth to death to various government agencies and organizations. This includes data on income, education, family, employment, health, and other areas. Statistics Finland maintains several digital databases containing population, business, education, earnings, and other data. They are working to improve dialogue across organizations to better understand data needs and ensure the supply of information meets the demands of decision makers. Statistical institutions will play a role in facilitating multiprofessional dialogue platforms to combine comparable statistics with specific problem-related information.

1. Statistics Agency as
contributor to a data-
driven decision-making
Deputy Director General Ville Vertanen,
Visit of Mariana Kotzeva and Lukasz Augustyniak to
Statistics Finland 14. – 15. June 2023

2. We can provide the data of a full lifecycle
Baby is born Graduate Establish a company Gettin married Earning money Buy a car Building a house Retirement Gets sick Dies
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Statistics Finland
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Data needs of the society

3. Digital Research-Ready Data Library
see taika.stat.fi/en/
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FOLK Population
Person
Income
Education
Family
Employment
Cohabitation
Migration
EDUC Education
Person
Admissions
Students
Degrees and
qualifications
FIRM Business
activity
Enterprise
Business
operations
Financial
statements
Bankruptcies
Industrial
output
Research and
development
Global value
chains
FLOWN Ownership
Enterprise,
person
Shareholder
information
Dividend
information
SES Earnings
Person
Structure of
earnings
statistics
Harmonised
structure of
earnings
statistics
TAX Sources
of income
Person,
enterprise
Wages
and salaries
Pensions
and benefits
INFRA Spatial data
Person,
building
Residents
by building
Data from other
organisations
Person,
enterprise
Employment
service
statistics
International
trade on
commodities
Matriculation
examination
results

4. Questions for the coming data production?
• There is no substitute for statistics comparable globally and over time, but their information content
and formation cycle are not sufficient for many social decision-making situations.
Wise reasoning and decision-making based on it combines comparable statistics and specific
information related to problems. In what role are the national statistical institutes going to be
involved in this?
The information needs of business management are simpler when the final yardstick is the euro -
the problems are more complex in public activities where there are many simultaneous goals.
• The success of information management is determined by dialogue across the information value
chain.
The supply of information and the demand arising from the challenges of management meet
weakly from the start. The key to success is a multiprofessional dialogue. How are the platforms
produced that are needed for this dialogue? What will be the role of statistical institutions in this?
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5. Together!
Ville Vertanen
Ville.vertanen@stat.fi
Twitter @VilleVertanen