kotitalouksin

Kotitalouksin is a Finnish inflected form of the noun kotitalous, which means household or domestic unit. In standard modern Finnish, the genitive plural that denotes “of households” is kotitalouksien. The form kotitalouksin is not commonly used as a standalone term in contemporary Finnish and may appear only in older texts, dialectal usage, or as a nonstandard variant.

In statistics and policy, households are the basic unit of analysis. Data are typically reported for kotitaloudet (households) and for kotitalouksien when describing characteristics of households collectively, such as incomes, consumption, housing, and population. For example, kotitalouksien tulot means “the incomes of households.”

Grammatical note: kotitalous is a compound of koti (home) and talous (economy/management). The standard genitive plural suffix is -ien, yielding kotitalouksien. The ending -in is not standard for genitive plural in modern Finnish; it may appear in historical writings, nonstandard usage, or as a transcription variant. If kotitalouksin appears in a text, it is typically safer to interpret it as a nonstandard or context-specific form rather than the regular genitive plural.

See also: kotitalous; tilastot; demografia.