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CPS1485 Pasi P.
The non-mountainous geography of Finland involves plenty of lakes and
waters. This can be seen in Figure 1 which presented the service area polygons
of 25 and 50 kilometres around statistical population centres. However the
southern municipality have roads to all the directions even if surrounded by
lakes. But the new type of index would make a considerable difference for the
northern municipality: accessibility by applying the route network reveals only
very sparsely populated areas within 50 kilometres from its centre.

4. Cultural accessibility
Cultural accessibility has been studied at Statistics Finland recently as well.
Some statistics have been published and some specifically ordered by the
Finnish Center for Cultural Policy Research CUPORE as a customer.
Here the methodology is similar to the previous service areas, but the
challenge is the number of very different cultural institutions and events that
should be targeted. Manual geocoding is sometimes required. Also the
location itself can be difficult to define (e.g. orchestras).
So far accessibility statistics have been provided for public libraries, movie
theatres, theatres, museums, festivals, orchestras and children’s cultural
centres. About 72.4 percent of the Finnish population lives within three
kilometres of their nearest public library and half of the population actually
within 1500 meters only (Piela, P. 2/2016). Theatres are not reached by walking
distance for many: 20 percent lives within three kilometres and half of the
population within 10 kilometres.
However, most of the population can reach any of the mentioned
institutions and some cultural event within a short drive distance of 30
kilometres.

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