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Need help finding material or the right person to interview ?
Contact the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s Communications Department. You can reach us during office hours at +358 295 535 060.
If necessary, see also the more specific contact details for Communications.
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How to submit a data request for journalistic purposes
When you need information related to names or other population information for journalistic purposes, you can submit a request for data sampling (data request).
As the Digital and Population Data Services Agency is not a statistical authority, we do not regularly produce ready-to-use statistics. Instead, we tailor data sampling for the media on a case-by-case basis.
Our statistical material cannot be directly compared with the material produced by other organisations. The differences are caused by the date of the sampling and the restricting criteria used, among other things. The official statistical authority in Finland is Statistics Finland.
You can familiarise yourself with the Population Information System and the information contained in it.
- Population Information System
- personal data datamodels in the Population Information System Click the blue Maximise button next to the model on the right side of the page. (mostly in Finnish)
- building data datamodels in the Population Information System Click the blue Maximise button next to the model on the right side of the page. (mostly in Finnish)
Your will find our ready-to-use data material at
- Name service
- Open data website (mostly in Finnish)
- The most popular children’s names by year 2011– (in Finnish)
The sampled data is usually delivered as Excel files. The delivery time depends of the amount of work and the work situation, and will be estimated in connection with the order.
Select the type of sampling
If the information to be delivered in the sampling for journalistic purposes contains personal data (e.g. names, addresses), you must apply for a customer-specific data access authorisation. For example, this includes contact details for interviewing persons with milestone birthdays in a newspaper’s delivery area. Based on the application for data access authorisation, a one-off authorisation or a continuous authorisation may be granted. An order submitted on the basis of a continuous authorisation will be delivered within about 5 days.
You can obtain a customer-specific data access authorisation through our partners. Read more about our partners here (in Finnish). For enquiries about the price of sampling work ordered from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s partners, contact the partners directly.
You can also apply directly to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency for a data access authorisation. The processing time for an authorisation is currently at least 2–4 weeks. In this case, contact the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s Communications Department ([email protected] or +358 295 535 060).
When the sampling for journalistic purposes has been ordered directly from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, the price of the work is formed as follows: €70/beginning hour + €0.02 €/data unit + €7 invoicing fee (VAT 0%).
If the required information does not include personal data in which individual persons can be directly identified (e.g. it only contains the number of people), contact the Data Services Agency’s Communications Department ([email protected] or +358 295 535 060). We will determine the feasibility, extent and delivery schedule of the request together.
The price of data sampling work for journalistic purposes is formed as follows: €70/beginning hour + €0.02 €/data unit + €7 invoicing fee (VAT 0%). The amount of work and the price based on it is estimated in connection with the order.
Think about the following matters before submitting the data sampling request
- subject of the data request
- the time period on which you need the data
- restrictions (e.g. geographical area)
- classifications (e.g. age group, gender)
- the required form of the data (e.g. number of persons, percentages)
- timetable
- the media publishing the information
- email address for delivering the information
- invoicing details.
Example: You are writing an article on the occurrence of the name Pietari in Pietarsaari in different times.
- Subject: Occurrence of the name Pietari
- Time period: 1900–2020
- Restrictions: In Pietarsaari, as first given name
- Form: number per decade, men/women separately for gender-neutral names
- Timetable: The article will be published in two weeks’ time
- Media
- Address: [email protected]
- Invoicing details
Example: You are writing an article on couples who got married on a leap day
- Subject: Couples married on a leap day
- Time period: previous 3 leap days
- Restrictions: still married
- Form: number of couples, not persons
- Timetable: not determined
- Media
- Address: [email protected]
- Individuals
- Processing times
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Life changes 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
- Death abroad
- Registration of citizenship
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Submitting foreign documents
- As a foreigner in Finland
- 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
- Updating customer registers
- Sampling services
- Search services of the Population Information System
- Local Register Office Register search services
- Extracts from registers
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital support
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- Finnish Authenticator identification service
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