Repealing the outdated Population Census Act
Act repealing the Population Census Act
The Population Census Act, dating from 1938, will be repealed as redundant. Separate censuses based on questionnaires have not been conducted since 1980; instead, population statistics are nowadays compiled directly from administrative registers.
- Status
- Passed
- Submitted
- 10 Aug 2017
- Latest event
- 10 Nov 2017
- Votes
- 0
- Speeches
- 2
- Confirmed
- 1 Dec 2017
- Statute
- 815/2017
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The Population Census Act will be repealed in its entirety. The general provisions of the Statistics Act and the Act on the Openness of Government Activities will begin to apply to old census data collected before 1990, in the same way as to other statistical data.
What it means
The change will clarify the confidentiality rules for old census data and make it easier for researchers to access the materials through Statistics Finland's standard user licence procedure and remote access system. The act will enter into force on 1 November 2017.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Debate in the chamber
MPs' plenary speeches verbatim from the parliamentary record. Open a debate to read what was said about the bill and by whom. Speeches are shown in their original language.
2 speeches · 2 speakers · 2 debates
Keskustelu päättyi. Asia lähetettiin hallintovaliokuntaan.
Yleiskeskustelu päättyi. Eduskunta hyväksyi hallituksen esitykseen HE 89/2017 vp sisältyvän lakiehdotuksen sisällön mietinnön mukaisena. Lakiehdotuksen ensimmäinen käsittely päättyi.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 10 Aug 2017Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 6 Sep 2017Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 20 Oct 2017Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · hallintovaliokunta
- 25 Oct 2017Ensimmäinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 7 Nov 2017Toinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 9 Nov 2017Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki väestölaskentalain kumoamisestaHyväksytty · 815/2017 · 1 Dec 2017
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki väestölaskentalain kumoamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti säädetään:
1 §
Tällä lailla kumotaan väestölaskentalaki (154/1938).
2 §
Tämä laki tulee voimaan kuuta 20.
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 13 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.