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2. The place to find up-to-date information on:
Findicator
The place to find up-to-date information on:
demographic developments in Finland
international crisis management
public expenditure
obesity among Finns
income differences
fish catches
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3. Findicator was set up in response to a need
Findicator was set up in response to a need
To promote decision-making based on empirical data
Indicators applied in follow-up to Government Programme in 2003/2007
Finland participates in the OECD Global Project, "Measuring the Progress of Societies"
Preparation initiated by PM’s Office in 2007
Preliminary study on need for indicator service and qualities of a smoothly functioning service
Drafting started in autumn 2008 as joint project between Statistics Finland and the PM’s Office
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4. Findicator was published on 14 October 2009
Findicator was published on 14 October 2009
visitors and downloads during first day
Currently approx visitors and downloads every month
International award: Best Use of New Technology (Oct. 2009, OECD)
Homepage, information on the technical infrastructure and the list of indicators also available in English
Service provision in Swedish and English to be expanded by end of 2011
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5. Findicator is a comprehensive databank
Findicator is a comprehensive databank
Includes approximately 100 indicators of social progress
Up-to-date and relevant information on important societal issues
Indicators selected in consultation with user groups and data providers
Grouped thematically and by policy issue in line with Government Programme
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6. Findicator is user-friendly
Findicator is user-friendly
Most recent data for each indicator automatically updated
For each indicator: charts, tables, analyses, links to background information
User-friendly design; high quality statistical graphics
Data easily downloadable for manipulation and analysis
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7.
Findicator is useful
Provides links to larger information sources, metadata and international reference data
Improves access to information in the form of indicators
Supports knowledge-based decision-making
Available to all at
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10. Contacts Steering Group Chairman
Contacts
Steering Group Chairman
Heli Mikkelä, Director, Information Services, Statistics Finland
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Secretary to the Steering Group
Findicator Coordinator
Laura Mäkelä, Coordinator, Information Services, Statistics Finland
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Chairman of Contact Person Network
Sirpa Kekkonen, Counsellor
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Secretary to the Contact Person Network
Ulla Rosenström, Senior Specialist
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11. Findicator: Internet service with hundred indicators measuring progress

12. The Findicator
Joint project between the Prime Minister’s Office and Statistics Finland
Provides information on the social development in Finland
Improves the availability and accessibility of indicator-like information
Supports evidence-based decision-making. PMO: ”to strengthen the evidence-based policy-making culture within the Finnish Government”
The Findicator is not only about indicators — IT-technology, frequent updates, and links to further sources of information are equally important
Target group: Members of the parliament and their assistants, press officers, journalists
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13. The Joint Project Oct 2008 - Dec 2009
Launched by the top management of the Prime Minister’s Office and Statistics Finland
The PMO
Selecting (policy-relevant) indicators
Contacts with other data providers: to get other agencies to provide the data
Co-operation with the interministerial working group
Promotion of the service
Statistics Finland
System and information architecture
The updating system and methods
Setting up the web-site
Maintaining the database
The main data provider
.. in practice the work was carried out jointly in close cooperation
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14. Already there… The project team
Cooperation network within the statistical service
The portal of official statistics
The new XML-based publishing
Standardised PX-tools
Long expertice in indicators
The project team
About 15 persons (IT- and information departments)
Indicator development
Informatics
Database management
Internet coding
Graphic design
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15. The service - opened 14 Oct 2009
The set of indicators
a total of ca 100 indicators
information provided by 17 organisations
grouped by themes (12) and government programme policies (10)
Each indicator
Graph
Analysis
Description
Table
Database
Links
=> Updated automatically from available information. => Updated at the same time as the statistics is released.
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16. Latest Themes updates & Topics grouped by grouped by Indicator lists
previous week
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17. Producing organisation
Last updated,
the next release date
Producing organisation
Indicators under the topic
Links to the data table and the graph
Ingress/ summary of the latest release
Links to further information
Description of the indicator
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18. Architecture/ Statistics Finland
StatFin: Production Database
Statistical publication: FastWeb: - CoSSI-XML - Office
VERTI Publishing system
PX-Web
Publishing system PX
Graphs, tables, Excel
statistics PX
Administration
Indicator maintenance:
Text, Links, Information retrieval system
Statistical release: Analysis, metadata.
StatFin: Statistical database
PX-Web
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19. Text, PX, links, release time
Architecture: Other agencies
Source data
Web-form
Text, PX, links, release time t
Statistics Finland
SAS-macro
SAS
Publishing
system of SF PX
Excel
PX-Edit PX
CSV etc.
StatFin: Statistical database
StatFin: production database
PX-Web
Text,
links
PX-Web
Administration
Graphs,
tables
VERTI Publishing
system
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