Patients in hospital care (COVID-19)
Data collection has ended 31 December 2022. This page is no longer updated.
Here is a description of THL's open data describing the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital care in Finland. The data will be published via THL’s open data API.
Information can also be examined directly from statistical charts. The tables are published as data cubes, which enables the users to select data from the materials.
API address: https://sampo.thl.fi/pivot/prod/api/epirapo/covid19care.json
Subject area of the data: epirapo
Name of the subject: covid19care
Description of THL’s open data API
THL's open data license and limitation of liability
Description of the data
The data contains information on the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital care. The data is presented on a daily basis, as the number of COVID-19 patients treated. The data is available by specific area of responsibility and for the country as a whole.
The data is based on data reported to THL by hospital districts on the number of COVID-19 patients in ward and intensive care.
The data collection cycle has varied during the epidemic. At the start of the pandemic, the data was collected daily. After this time, the data has been collected on weekdays or three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays).
The collection cycle has been changed according to the epidemic situation. The missing days in the material have been taken into consideration by using the data from the previous day to make up for the data from the following days. For example, weekend data is often identical with data from the previous Friday.
Indicators
| Indicator | Indicator ID | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing hospital ward periods (before 7 December 2020) | n_esh_inpatient | COVID-19 patients in hospital ward, daily status of the number of patients. Covers all COVID-19 patients in in-patient specialised medical care, but only partially COVID-19 patients in in-patient primary care. As of 7 December 2020, data has been collected separately from the departments of primary health care and specialised medical care. |
Survey for hospital districts |
| On-going in-patient care in primary health care wards | n_esh_inpatient_phc | COVID-19 patients in primary health care wards, daily status of the number of patients. | Survey for hospital districts |
| On-going in-patient care in specialised health care wards | n_esh_inpatient_shc | COVID-19 patients in specialised health care wards, daily status of the number of patients. | Survey for hospital districts |
| Ongoing intensive care in ICUs | n_esh_ICU | COVID-19 patients in emergency care wards, daily status of the number of patients. | Survey for hospital districts |
| Number of inhabitants | Population | Most recent information on the number of inhabitants | Population Information System |
Dimensions and indicators
The dimensions represent the various dimensions in which data can be represented. Each dimension is divided into one or more levels that allow you to tabulate the desired views of the data you are viewing.
The dimensions and levels found in the cube interface and API are described in the table below. The interpretation of the dimensions depends on the indicator under inspection. The table describes the interpretation of the dimension for each indicator.
| Dimension | Dimensions ID | Level | Level ID | Node ID (sid) | Description when indicator used is: Ongoing ward periods (before 7 December 2020), Ongoing ward periods in primary care wards, Ongoing ward periods in specialised medical care wards or Ongoing intensive care periods |
Description when indicator used is: Number of inhabitants | Further notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | dateweek20200101 | day | date | - | The situation on the day in question or the most recent information prior to that | Not available | - |
| - | - | week | week | - | Not available, not applicable | Not available | - |
| - | - | all dates | root | 509030 | Most recent status | The most recent data on the population calculated from the population register | - |
| Region | SCA | Special catchment area (SCA) | SCA | - | Area of care | Derived from the municipality of residence according to the regional division of Statistics Finland | Turku University Hospital catchment area also includes data for Åland |
| - | - | all areas | root | 456367 | All areas total | All areas total | - |
Examples of typical data retrievals
- Latest data on the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and intensive care by catchment area
- Time series of numbers of COVID-19 patients in hospital and intensive care across the country
Note. The addresses of the cube interface and API are identical, except for the .json suffix before the? character of the cube interface. The user interface is thus a good tool for creating searches.
You can read more about using the cube interface in the general instructions.
Instructions for the data cube
Contact information:
Contacts and questions about open COVID-19 data:
epidemia.avoindata(at)thl.fi
Feedback on the THL cube interface and the open data API:
tietojarjestelmat(at)thl.fi
