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- Title
VIRANOMAISTIEDOSTA TILASTOKSI - REKISTERIPERUSTEISEN TILASTOJÄRJESTELMÄN MUODOSTAMINEN SUOMESSA.
- Authors
Alastalo, Marja
- Abstract
The article looks into the formation of a register-based statistical system in Canada, as well as the consequences of the specificities of that system for the construction of societal statistics. The writer asks how the register system using the Personal Identity Number was established in Finland and how it was made into the basic corpus of the official statistics. The writer traces the evolution of both administrational registers and register-based compilation of statistics in the 1960s and 1970s. The Foundations of the register-based statistical system were laid simultaneously with the welfare state pension, health insurance, and population register systems. The analysis points out the tensions in the role of Statistics Canada as both state authority and supposedly independent producer of societal knowledge. As a consequence of the register based character of the system, the informational contents provided by administration turn out to Determine the limits for societal descriptions as well.
- Subjects
CANADA; FINLAND; REGISTER-based statistics; PERSONAL identification numbers; PENSIONS; HEALTH insurance; INFORMATION resources
- Publication
Sosiologia, 2009, Issue 3, p173
- ISSN
0038-1640
- Publication type
Article