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STS461 Jukka H.

The development of national reporting platform
for global SDG indicators in Finland
Jukka Hoffrén
Statistics Finland

Abstract
The Finnish national reporting platform (NPR) of Agenda 2030 Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) –indicators was published in February 2019. At the
moment database contains national data for 131 indicators of the total of
internationally agreed set of 243 indicators i.e. some 53 per cent of the
indicators. The national statistical office of Finland, Statistics Finland, is in
charge of national compilation of global SDG -indicators.
The Finnish SDG development project for national compilation of SDG –
indicator data was carried out during 2018 at statistics Finland. Project
received the mandate and financing from the Prime Minister’s Office. The tasks
of development project included two mapping rounds of possible indicator
data producing institutions and organizations. This was followed by
compilation of existing data, metadata and translation of indicator names into
Finnish. An internet based national reporting platform was established and
published on February 12, 2019. The Finnish NPR is internet –based database
that is realized by Px-web software.
In order to extend and update the SDG -indicator data in NPR, Statistics
Finland has set up a co-operation network of main data producers and Prime
Minister’s office in April 2019. This network ensure and coordinate continued
development efforts of the database. In total there are some 11 institutions in
Finland that provide data for the database NPR. For the running activities
statistical office has been issued additional allowance in state budget for next
five years i.e. from 2019 to 2023. Also an option till 2030 have been preliminary
agreed with the Ministry of Finance.
For statistical office SDG indicator compilation has been major challenge
as it has brought up totally new data validation, methodological, conceptual,
metadata and cooperation issues as well as methodological and metadata
assistance to other national data producing institutions, not common tasks in
common statistics compilation work. Within the development project several
important lessons were learned. Firstly, continued political, institutional and
financial support for the national production of the SDG indicator work is
highly important. Secondly, communication and networking as well as
interagency co-operation of experts play a major role in the compilation of
NPR data. Thirdly, establishment of the SDG -indicator set requires that several
methodological and conceptual challenges need to be addressed on national

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