Tilastoitavien

Tilastoitavien is a Finnish grammatical form used to describe items that are to be included in statistics or subjected to statistical processing. It is the genitive plural form of tilastoitava, a participial adjective built from the verb tilastoi- meaning to tabulate or record in statistics. In practice, tilastoitavien functions as a modifier that signals that the head noun is intended for statistical treatment.

The form commonly appears in noun phrases where the head noun is a plural countable item, or in a genitive phrase describing data or materials. For example, tilastoitavien aineistojen kerääminen means “the collection of data to be tabulated,” and tilastoitavien arvojen tarkempi laskenta would translate roughly as “the more precise calculation of values to be tabulated.” These phrases are typical in research methodology, data management, and statistical reporting, where it is important to distinguish data that will enter official statistics from data that will not.

Usage notes: tilastoitavien is a formal, technical form and is more common in written Finnish than in everyday speech. It reflects a concern with whether certain data or materials will be included in statistical outputs. The related forms include tilastoitava (singular) and other inflections of tilastoitava, which adapt to different nouns and grammatical cases as needed.

Etymology: tilastoitavien derives from tilastoitava, itself from tilasto (statistics) and the verb tilastoit- meaning to tabulate or record statistically.