tilastoja

Tilastoja is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun tilasto, which means statistics, data, or a statistical table. In Finnish, tilastoja is used when the data or statistics are treated as an indefinite or non-counted portion, or when the data are the object of an action. For example: “Tutkimuksessa kerättiin tilastoja useista maista.” or “Tilastoja julkaistaan kuukausittain.” By contrast, tilastot is the nominative plural form used when the statistics are the subject or a clearly defined set: “Tilastot osoittavat …”

In everyday and formal usage, tilastoja appears frequently in media, reports, and research writing to refer to published data or datasets in a non-quantified sense. The word can denote a collection of individual statistics, a single dataset treated as a mass, or multiple data points aggregated for analysis.

Official statistics in Finland are produced by Tilastokeskus (Statistics Finland), which publishes tilastoja on demographics, the economy, education, health, and other sectors. These tilastoja are commonly delivered as tables, charts, and brief summaries and are used to inform policy, business, and public understanding. The term tilastoja thus functions across disciplines to denote statistical information without specifying a precise number or single item, aligning with Finnish grammar that distinguishes between partitive and nominative plurality.

See also: tilasto (singular), tilastot (nominative plural), Tilastokeskus.