The 1985 living conditions and causes of death database, which is based on 1985 census, covers all the Finnish population. Using identification numbers, individual data is combined with information on deaths and causes of death obtained from basic mortality statistics for the period 1986-91.
Data is available only in aggregated form.
Permission of Statistics Finland is needed. The system was set up in 1990 by Statistics Finland and the Sociological Institution at the University of Helsinki. The database was primarily made for the study that describes socio-economic differences in mortality and related changes in Finland in 1980's. The disability data were made to study the incidence of disability pensions in Finland between 1972 and 1985. The study was set up to analyze changes in the incidence of disability pensions in various population groups and to determine which background factors influenced these changes.