Migration

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Immigration lower than one year before 29 Apr 2011 According to Statistics Finland, 25,650 persons immigrated to Finland from foreign countries during 2010. The number is 1,050 lower than one year before. Emigration from Finland also decreased slightly and was 11,900 persons. During 2010, net immigration totalled 13,750 persons, which is 800 down on the year before. Net immigration by foreign citizens contracted very little, or by 150 persons. Next release: 27 Apr 2012
Description:	The statistics on migration describe the moving of individual persons. The statistics differentiate moves across the Finnish territorial boundaries, that is, immigration and emigration, and internal moves within the country, which are further classified into moves between and within municipalities. In migration statistics, data are compiled by the age, gender, marital status, native language, country of birth, and region of arrival and departure of migrants. A person may appear in one year’s statistics several times because the statistical unit is move. Read full description >>>

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Statistics Finland

Data:

Latest release:
Immigration lower than one year before
29 Apr 2011
According to Statistics Finland, 25,650 persons immigrated to Finland from foreign countries during 2010. The number is 1,050 lower than one year before. Emigration from Finland also decreased slightly and was 11,900 persons. During 2010, net immigration totalled 13,750 persons, which is 800 down on the year before. Net immigration by foreign citizens contracted very little, or by 150 persons.

Next release:
27 Apr 2012

Description:

The statistics on migration describe the moving of individual persons. The statistics differentiate moves across the Finnish territorial boundaries, that is, immigration and emigration, and internal moves within the country, which are further classified into moves between and within municipalities. In migration statistics, data are compiled by the age, gender, marital status, native language, country of birth, and region of arrival and departure of migrants. A person may appear in one year’s statistics several times because the statistical unit is move.
Read full description >>>

Referencing instructions:

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Migration [e-publication].
ISSN=1797-6782. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 13.2.2012].
Access method: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/til/muutl/index_en.html.

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