Statistics and registers
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Social assistance
The Register of Social Assistance contains data collected
annually on social assistance recipients. Each year, statistics on
social assistance clients are compiled based on the register data.
The client statistics provide information on the number and types
of social assistance recipients and the costs of social assistance.
The statistics also include cross-sectional data on clients in
November. The dare received from municipalities. Data on social
assistance recipients have been collected since 1985. However,
comparable information on client numbers is available from 1969
onwards.
| Statistical Report 43/2011, Social assistance 2010 was
published in Finnish on the 9th December 2011. It will appear in
English later on these pages. |
Social assistance 2009
The number of households and persons receiving social assistance
fell throughout the early 2000s, but began to rise again in 2009.
In 2009, social assistance was granted to a total of 238 755
households and 377 688 individuals in Finland. Altogether 7.1 per
cent of the Finnish population received social assistance. Both the
number of households and the number of persons receiving social
assistance increased by about 11 per cent on 2008. The number of
clients receiving social assistance rose to the level it was on in
2005.
The situation is a reflection of the unemployment trends in
2008−2009 and conditions of economic slowdown in Finland. Like the
recession in the early 1990s, the economic downturn struck young
adults aged 18−29 particularly hard; there was a 20 per cent
increase of this age group in total client numbers compared with
the previous year, and an increase of more than 40 per cent among
new clients. However, unemployment and social assistance statistics
seem to indicate that the most recent economic downturn may not
continue as steeply as the early 1990s recession.
Gross expenditure on social assistance has been increasing since
2005. In 2009, expenditure on social assistance came to EUR 615
million, an increase of 17 per cent on the previous year. In real
terms, expenditure on social assistance has increased by 30 per
cent since 2005. This trend reflects the fact that recipients of
social assistance rely on this form of assistance for a longer time
than previously.
Figure 1. Social assistance
1990−2009: expenditure (at 2009 prices),
households and recipients
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Source of information:
Toimeentulotuki 2009 − Utkomststöd 2009 − Social Assistance
2009.
Statistical Summary 31/2010, 27th December 2010
Official Statistics of Finland. Social Protection 2010. THL.
Further information:
Hannele Tanhua tel. +358 20 610 7369 and
Sirkka Kiuru tel. +358 20 610 7099
E-mail: firstname.lastname@thl.fi |
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Published 31.5.2006, Updated
10.1.2012
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