Digital and Population Data Services Agency (The Finnish Digital Agency)
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency promotes the digitalisation of society, secures the availability of data, and provides services for the life events of its customers.
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency (The Finnish Digital Agency) sees to the maintenance of the Population Information System, which is the foundation for our society, and to the digitalisation of society.
The agency’s tasks include civil marriages, name and address changes, guardianship and administrative guardianship, maintenance of the Population Information System, development of solutions for electronic identification, as well as the development and maintenance of centralised support services for e-services. E-service support services include the Suomi.fi Web Service, electronic messages from authorities (Suomi.fi Messages) as well as authorisation for acting on behalf of another party (Suomi.fi e-Authorization).
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency leads the way, reforms society and supports citizens in their interaction with public administration. Our aim is to further promote the smooth functioning of Finnish society. Digitalisation is one important way to achieve this.
We operate courageously to reform, support and appreciate.
We create trust and care about the future.
Digitalisation partner with a vision
In society, we act as a trendsetter that operates courageously by reforming, supporting and appreciating. For our customers and partners, we are a reliable and desirable partner with a vision.
Through networking actively, we strengthen confidence in society. Our goal is to make Finnish society run even smoother.
Our values are courage, appreciation and trust
Guided by our values, we make decisions open-mindedly, we encourage self-direction among our experts, and we make fast progress.
In our operations, we value diversity, have respectful conversations, and nurture competence. All our operations are guided by mutual trust and a constant will to improve. To become even better, we evaluate ourselves and our operations constantly.
We operate on a national level
Our agency has over 900 employees and we operate in over 30 towns all over Finland.
Our operating model is national; citizens can visit any service location they choose.
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We actively share our operations on social media.
We are on our social media channels Mondays through Fridays from 9:00–16:00.
Our communications and marketing team is responsible for maintaining, using, and developing social media profiles.
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Ground rules for our social media channels and webinars
The availability and dissemination of accurate information are important for us. We want to be interactive and present wherever a large proportion of the people as well as our stakeholders are.
Our values guide our activities also on social media and in our webinars. We take others into account and discuss things in an appropriate manner. Thank you for working with us under the same principles!
Our ground rules are
- We respect each other's opinions. We do engage in name-calling.
- We do not use derogatory expressions or cursing.
- We protect people's privacy and we do not discuss anybody's matters publicly.
If our ground rules are not followed
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We will remove messages that are racist or otherwise insulting to people, a community, a religion, or race.
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We will remove messages that contain links to unlawful material or which are based on inappropriate material, conspiracy theories, disinformation, or fake news.
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If necessary, we will block a person's access to our social media channels or webinars.
- Individuals
- Processing times
- Marriage
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Guardianship
- Life changes while living abroad
- Moving while living abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Marriage concluded abroad
- Partnership registered abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Gender recognised abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of citizenship
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Submitting foreign documents
- As a foreigner in Finland
- Registration of a foreigner
- Registration of a foreign student
- Municipality of residence
- Family relationships and Marital Status
- Instructions on arriving in Finland from Ukraine
- Guide for employed persons
- Fast track service for specialists and growth entrepreneurs
- Instructions for legalisation
- Submitting foreign documents
- Foreigner’s move to Finland, in Finland and out of Finland
- Check your own personal details
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
- Digital support for citizens
- Organisations
- Certificates
- Population information services for organisations
- Public administration sampling and updating service
- Private sector information services
- PIS modified data interface
- Modified data update service
- VTJkysely interface
- Browser-based Population Information System query
- Resident sampling services for property management offices and maintenance companies
- Data extraction for municipalities
- Reform of personal identity code
- Conditions for using population information
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Extracts from registers
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital support
- European digital identity wallet
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- Finnish Authenticator identification service
- About the agency
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency as an Employer
- Use our services electronically
- Contact
- Customer service for private customers
- Customer service for organisations
- Service locations
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency address, switchboard e-billing details
- Digital and Population Data Services Agency Management
- Marriage ceremony premises information
- Contact details for media
- International Affairs
- Invoicing
- Quality policy
- Equality plan for customers
- Data protection
- News
- Population Information System
- For media
- Brochures and publications
- Projects
- Foresight and research cooperation