Finland Yearbook - 1976

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336. Sentences by General Courts of First Instance
in 1938—1975..................................................... 347
337. Persons sentenced to imprisonment in Courts
of First Instance in 1967—1975 .................... 347
338. Age of persons sentenced to imprisonment in
Courts of First Instance in 1938—1975 ___ 348
339. Social group of persons sentenced to imprisonment
in Courts of First Instance in 1957—1975 348
340. General Courts of First Instance: prosecutions
and convictions in 1938—1975 ...................... 349
341. Use of alcohol and criminality in 1938—1974 349
342. Prison administration in 1945—1975 ........... 350
343. Distraint cases in 1945—1975 ....................... 350
344. Cases settledly Provincial Courts in 1958—1975 351
345. Cases finally dealth with by the Assurance Trilunal
in 1959—1975 ......................................... 351
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346. Elections in 1908—1976 ................................... 352
347. Persons entitled to vote and persons who voted
in parliamentary elections in 1975 ................ 353
348. Parliamentary elections in 1907—1975......... 354
349. Vote totals of parties in parliamentary elections
in 1975 ............................................................... 356
350. Representatives elected in 1975........................ 357
351. Presidential elections in 1968 ......................... 357
352. Vote totals of parties and communal councillors
in municipal elections in 1976 ...................... 358
353. Persons entitled to vote and persons who voted
in municipal elections in 1976 ...................... 360
Tables in the 1975 issue o f the Statistical Yearbook which have been excluded in 1976
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1975 1975
79. Forest area by owner groups and forestry board
districts at the beginning of 1965 ............... 93
99.1) Personnel of industry in different types of
enterprises, industrial motive power and
generation and consumption oj electricity ly
groups of industry in 1973 .......................... 110
100. Annual net turnover and operating costs in 1973 112
123. Imports and exports of certain important
commodities in 1974 ....................................... 142
151. Advances to the public according to secuiities
on 31 Decemler 1938—1973 .......................... 188
220. State debt in 1938—1974 ............................... 230
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1975 1975
290. Industrial accidents in insured enterprises and
State works by industry in 1972 .................... 305
295.1) Expenditure and revenue of communes for
public assistance in 1972—1973 .................. 313
297. Families receivinq family allowances in 1950—
1973 ................................................................... 314
298. Children receiving special child allowances, by
reason in 1972—1973 ..................................... 315
310. Students by branch of studies in 1973/74 and
1974/75 ............................................................... 326
V The new table partly replace» the former.
Regional subdivisions of Finland
Administratively, the country is divided into 12 provinces
(Finnish: lääni — Swedish: län) and 464 (1977) communes
(kunta — kommun). With regard to system and
degree of self-government the communes are, since 1977, of
two different types, viz. urban communes (kaupunki —
stad) and other communes (kunta — kommun). Before
1977 the communes were of three different types, viz. »urban
communes, 1st class» (kaupunki — stad, in previous
statistics: »towns»), mrlan communes, 2nd class» (kauppala
— köping, in previous statistics: »market towns»), and
rural communes (maalaiskunta — landskommun). Usually
the two former groups are reported in recent statistics of
Finland together under the English heading of »urban
communes». In older statistics 2nd class urban communes
are often reported together with rural communes.
It should be noted that the communes are administrative
units and that the distinction between urban and other communes
does not depend on the size or density of conurbations.
In the 1963 Statistical Yearbook of Finland a list of
nonadministrative urban settlements with at least 500
inhabitants is given on pp. 26—37.
Many of these
have a greater population than the smallest urban
communes and, on the other hand, there are areas of
rural character inside the administrative boundaries of
several urban communes.
The parishes of the Lutheran Church usually coincide
with the communes, but, particularly in the case of urban
communes, there may be several parishes within one commune.
The judicial division differs considerably from the
administrative one.
For the needs of national and regional planning the
country is divided into 20 regional planning areas which
form economic, geographically or otherwise expedient units.
Date by these areas are presented in table 30.
For general and presidential elections the country is
divided into 15 electoral areas, evzry province consisting of
one or two such areas. Data by such areas are given in
tables 347—353.
Various other regional subdivisions, which often do not
coincide with the administrative ones, are used in tables
76, 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 183, 188 and 192.