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Regno 2000 Tallinn March 13-14,2000

Basic Information Systems in Finland Rolf
Ahlfors Population Register Centre Finland Furt
her information www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi
(Population Register Centre) www.stat.fi
(Statistics Finland) www.nls.fi ( National Land
Survey of Finland)
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INFORMATION SOCIETY

DEFINITION? INFORMATION statistics,
nationwide and local registers, TV, newspapers,
COMMUNICATION telecommunication,
networkservice, broadcasting,... NORMS l
egislation, standardization, culture, KNOWLEDG
E education, training programs, APPLICATIONS
GIS, eletronic identification card,
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HISTORY
MAPS
CENSUS
1000 B.C.
Information Society
2000
Nation-wide Information Systems
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SOCIETY
Information Society
Nation-wide information systems
Unit- based registers
Statistics
Census
Basic registers
Administrative registers
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THREE BASIC INFORMATION SYTEMS
BASIC REGISTERS person real estate building legal
unit
STATISTICS census person family household employm
ent etc
ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTERS taxation pension employm
ent etc.
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Basic Units in the Society

Person
residence owner
part of
member owner worker
Real Estate
Building
operate owner
Corporation
In Finland Population 5,2 mill. Buildings
2,6 mill. Real Estates 2,4 mill.
Corporations 0,2 mill.
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DATA INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1960 - 2000
Independent 1960 -
Centralised 1970 -
De-centralised 1980 -
Network 1990 -
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CLUSTER NETWORK 2000 -
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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

Real Estates

• REAL ESTATE INFORMATION
• SYSTEM
• National Land Survey
• Ministry of Agriculture and Forest
• Ministry of Justice

Real Estates
Buildings

• POPULATION INFORMATION SYSTEM
• Population Register Centre
• Ministry of the Interior

Dwellings
Business premises
Persons

• REGISTER OF ENTERPRISES
• Statistics Finland
• Ministry of Finance

Enterprises
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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

GENERAL CRITERIA FOR DEVELOPMENT - data
protection - rational maintenance - wide scope
of utilization - cooperation of municipalities
and state - information technology

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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

COMMON CRITERIA FOR THE CONTENT - broad
coverage - reliability - versatility - common
identification system - connection to other
basic and adminstr. registers - completeness

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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

• CENTRAL ASPECTS
• ID - system for the basic units
• Link system
• between the units
• between registers
• Standards and classification
• Co-operation
• Local organisations
• CENSUS
• provides a very good
• opportunity for discussing
• these issues
• measures the quality
• of registers

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IDENTIFICATION System in Finland
1. Person number ddmmyy - nnnc 050847 -
583L 2. Corporation / legal unit
Code 2568943-C - running number 3. Real
Estate Code 091 - 401 - 0023 - 0002 091 -
municipality - Helsinki 401 - quarter /
village 23 - block / house 2 -
number of the land unit 4. Residence code
(link code) 091 - 401 - 0023 - 0002 C 003 -
B 002 091-401- 23- 2 real estate code c
check number 003
building number 3 B 002
dwelling number B2
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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

INFORMATION SERVICE
Elections
Direct mark.
Physical planning
Taxation

REIS POIS RE
Rescue
Judicial admin.
Education
Research
Police
Statistics
Inquiry service (on-line) Telephone data
services Documents Up-dating of customer
registers Samplings Consultation
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DATASERVICE from BASIC REGISTERS 1998 Real
Estate Information System (REIS) Population
Information System (POIS) Register of
Enterprises (RE)
Internet CD-rom Direct Access Diskette Mg-tape
Paper

1998
1970
300 mill. units 25 mill. US turnover
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BASIC REGISTER SYSTEMS IN FINLAND

SOURCE OF FINANCING
State budget

Municipa lity- budget
Other sources
Financing
Regis- tration charge
Services Public sector
Services Private sector

• POPULATION REGISTER CENTRE 1998
• total costs FIM 82 mill.
• revenue public sector 28 FIM million
• revenue private sector 28 FIM million
• state budget 26 FIM million

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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
the real need of information common
aims / goals cooperation project very
slow process getting ahead step by step
planning on all levels interaction
continual human process
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• Organized co-operation 2000
• Everyday process
• Co-ordinating groups
• Basic registers and users
• Working groups
• Real Estate Information
• Population Information System
• Development groups
• Standardization groups
• real estate code, address, etc
• Seminars

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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• CHALLENGES
• New Register of Enterprises (2001)
• corporation information system
• Real Estate Information system
• planning part
• Improving the quality of the data
• (2000 - )
• State - municipality co-operation
• Common notification of moves (2000)
• PRC and Finland Post
• Common use of the basic registers
• user applications, EID
• Price policy (renewing)

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Regno 2000 Tallinn March 13-14,2000

• Basic Information Systems
• in Finland
• Rolf Ahlfors
• Information Service Manager
• Population Register Centre
• Box 7
• FIN-00521 Helsinki
• FINLAND
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• rolf.ahlfors_at_vrk.intermin.fi
• Futher information
• www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi (Population
  Register Centre)