Open data

THL promotes wide-ranging use of information resources in the field of social and health care. As part of this objective, THL provides open access to data produced and collated at the institute.

Information published as open data does not contain personal information or other confidential information. When the data is opened, all direct identification data is deleted from it.

Available as open data

Ultrahack 2016: THL open data challenge.
Ultrahack 2016: THL open data challenge

Specialised health care

Recipients of care and treatment periods (in Finnish only)

Somatic specialised health care by region (hospital districts)

Somatic specialised health care by region (provinces)

Psychiatric specialised health care by region (hospital districts)

Psychiatric specialised health care for children and adolescents by region (hospital districts)

Procedures (in Finnish only)

Number of procedures per year

Number of procedures by provider of care

Access to care (in Finnish only)

Queueing times by specialty
Queueing times by type of procedure
Queueing times in psychiatric specialized health care

More information (in Finnish only)

Primary health care

Updated reports can only be found on Finnish and Swedish language websites.

Queuing times in primary health care, visit realised (in Finnish only)

Queuing times in oral health care, visit realised (in Finnish only)

Visits by region (in Finnish only)

Visits by care provider (in Finnish only)

Recipients of primary health care (in Finnish only)

Visits in outpatient primary health care by ICD-10 (in Finnish only)

Visits in outpatient primary health care by ICPC-2 (in Finnish only)

Procedures in outpatient primary health care by SPAT (in Finnish only)

Visits in oral health care by region (in Finnish only)

More information (in Finnish only)

Health checks

Extensive health checks at prenatal clinics (in Finnish only)

Periodic health checks at child health clinics and in school health care (in Finnish only)

Extensive health checks at child health clinics and in school health care (in Finnish only)

Oral health checks (in Finnish only)

More information (in Finnish only)

Parturients, deliveries and newborns

Parturients and delivery process

Pain relief in labour

Newborns per district

Newborns per hospital

More information

Assisted fertility treatments

Assisted fertility treatments, whole country

More information

Induced abortions

Induced abortions, whole country

Induced abortions by hospital district

More information 

Sterilisations

Sterilisations, whole country

Sterilisations by hospital district

More information

Child welfare

Processing times in child welfare (Available only in Finnish and Swedish) 

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Social assistance

Expenditure on social assistance

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Home care

Home care visits by service provider (in Finnish only)

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Infectious Diseases 

Infectious Diseases Register

The national Infectious Diseases Register contains up-to-date information about the incidence of various infectious diseases over time and region. 

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Incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in Finland

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Vaccinations

Vaccination coverage for infants

Influenza vaccination coverage for persons aged over 65 years

Influenza vaccination coverage for children aged 6 months–6 years

More information

Hip and knee arthroplasty

Finnish Arthroplasty Register

Statistical information on welfare and health (Sotkanet)

The Sotkanet Statistics and Indicator Bank contains statistical information on welfare and health in Finland. Sotkanet is an open access database collating information produced by various data suppliers. Sotkanet data are available in Finnish, Swedish and English. 
Sotkanet REST API (in Finnish)

More information on Sotkanet

Health promotion comparison data by municipality (TEAviisari)

Health promotion capacity building

Municipal management

Basic education

Upper secondary education

Vocational education 

Physical activity

Primary health care

Culture

More information on TEAviisari

Private and public providers of social and health care 

More information on organisation register (in Finnish only) 

Social and health care providers’ locations 

More information on location register (TOPI) (in Finnish only)

Code systems used in social and health care

More information on Code Service 

Food composition database Fineli 

Fineli contains data on the chemical composition of 3700 common foods, focusing on over 50 nutrient factors.

More information on Fineli

THL's open data licence

Open data can be processed in digital form and combined with other data. THL's open data licence should be taken into account when using data.

Data policy

THL's data policy defines the priorities to promote the efficient use of our datasets as of 2016. THL is also implementing the principle of open data defined in THL's strategy and the Government Open Data Programme.
Data policy in Julkari open repository

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