Kaupungeittain

Kaupungeittain is a term that appears in statistical and demographic writing as an apparent variant of the Finnish word kaupungittain, which means “by city” or “city-by-city.” In standard Finnish, the correct form is kaupungittain; kaupungeittain is not widely recognized as a separate, canonical form. The sense conveyed by both spellings is data that are broken down or disaggregated at the city level.

Usage and meaning

In practice, kaupungittain (and, less commonly, kaupungeittain in nonstandard uses) indicates that a dataset is presented or analyzed separately for each city rather than for larger regions or the country as a whole. This framing is common in census reports, economic indicators, employment data, population statistics, and urban planning analyses, where comparisons across individual cities are important for policy or planning decisions.

Etymology and variants

The form derives from the noun city, kaupungki or kaupung—depending on the language system in use—with the Finnish suffix -ittain, which yields the sense of division or distribution by the referenced unit. The nonstandard variant kaupungeittain may appear in multilingual datasets, transcription errors, or informal texts, but it should be treated as a potential orthographic mistake rather than a distinct linguistic form.

See also

By-city statistics, disaggregated data, urban statistics, census by city.