Dwellings and housing conditions

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Majority of persons living alone are aged at least 35 22 May 2012 According to Statistics Finland, there were over one million one-person household-dwelling units in Finland in 2011. The number of these household-dwelling units grew by 13,000 from the year before. The majority of the persons living alone are aged between 35 and 64. In 2011, their share of all persons living alone was 42 per cent. Good one-third of the persons living alone were aged at least 65. By contrast, 24 per cent of the persons living alone were one-person household-dwelling units of under 35-year-olds. The size of the share of under 35-year-olds of all persons living alone has not changed much during the 2000s. At the end of 2011, Finland had 2,556,000 household-dwelling units. The number grew by 19,000 from the previous year. Most of the growth in the number of household-dwelling units was due to increased numbers of one and two-person households. Next release: 24 Oct 2012
Description:	The statistics on dwellings and housing conditions are produced annually and describe the existing stock, number of dwellings and housing conditions of household-dwelling units on the last day of the year. The dwelling stock comprises both permanently occupied dwellings and dwellings and flats without permanent occupants. Statistics Finland receives most of the data on dwellings from the population information system of the Population Register Centre, into which municipal building inspection authorities report data concerning buildings and dwellings that are subject to building permits. All persons residing permanently in the same dwelling form a household-dwelling unit. The statistics provide data on the dwelling stock by variables like tenure status, type of building, number of rooms and amenities. Housing conditions are described by variables such as structure and stage in life of household-dwelling unit and age of its members. Statistics on the dwellings and housing conditions can be produced according to all regional divisions based on municipalities and co-ordinates, as well as by postal code area. The statistics on the dwellings and housing conditions constitute total data. Read full description >>>
Keywords:	dwelling density, dwelling stock, dwellings, flats, household-dwelling units, housing, level of housing, living conditions, occupancy rate, owner-occupied dwellings, rented dwellings, right of occupancy dwellings. Statistics by keywords >>>
Change:	Statistics on Dwellings and housing conditions 26 May 2009 As from 2008 the statistics on Dwelling stock and the statistics on Household-dwelling units and housing conditions have been combined into a single set of statistics on Dwellings and housing conditions.

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Dwellings and housing conditions [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-6761. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 26.5.2012].
Access method: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/asas/index_en.html.

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