Statistics Finland: Statistics on the activities of social services of municipalities/joint municipal boards
Statistics Finland gathers information on municipal finances and activities on a yearly basis. The statistics contain information on municipally-funded services, that is, services that the municipality provides itself to its inhabitants or purchases from other municipalities, municipal federations, the state or private providers. In this context, Statistics on Social Welfare and Health Care Activities have been compiled since 1994 by order of STAKES and, as of the beginning of 2009, by order of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (the result of a merger between STAKES and KTL). A predecessor to these statistics was a report system for social welfare and health care, maintained by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health until 1993.
Keywords
child day care
full-time day care
child day-care centres
Classifications
Geographical classification
Municipality, sub-region, region, area for the regional state administrative agency, major region, Mainland Finland/Åland, hospital district, university hospital special responsibility area, whole country
Age classification
7 years and over
Data content
The indicator gives the number of children aged 7 and over in municipally funded full-time care in day-care centres on 31 December. Full-time care refers to day care of more than five hours daily. Municipally funded day care refers to the volume of services that the municipality has financed for its inhabitants. In calculating municipally funded services, any sales have been deducted from and purchases added to the municipalitys own production.
The data have been collected from 1994 onwards so as to describe the municipalitys own provision, sale and purchase of services. The data are available according to the following classification:
1. Municipalitys own services refers to services produced in the municipalitys own units.
2. Services sold by the municipality refers to the sale of the services mentioned under item 1 to other municipalities, for instance.
3. Services purchased from the state refers to services purchased from state-owned units.
4. Services purchased from municipalities refers to services purchased from other municipalities.
5. Services purchased from joint municipal boards refers to all services purchased from joint municipal boards.
6. Services purchased from others mainly refers services purchased from the private sector.
7. Services funded by the municipality refers to the volume of services (or income transfers) that the municipality has funded for its inhabitants. The volume is calculated by subtracting the services sold by the municipality from the municipalitys own provision and then adding the purchases (= 1-2+3+4+5+6).
The definitions and classifications used in the statistics are presented in Kuntien ja kuntayhtymien talous- ja toimintatilaston luokitukset 2006 (Classifications used in statistics on municipal finances and activities 2004), a publication by the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (in Finnish). The publication is available at the website of the Association (www.kunnat.net).
