UPDATED 20.02.2014 12:54

Organised cervical cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 2003. Numbers of women
in the target population, and invited and screened. Information registered from 438 municipalities (out of 446).

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.2002
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 29981 298 1.0 1400.5 47.0
25 28123 10470 37.2 573320.4 54.8
302 24560 22573 91.9 1340354.6 59.4
352 30906 30048 97.2 1957663.3 65.1
402 33850 33405 98.7 2373770.1 71.1
452 32777 32323 98.6 2372272.4 73.4
502 35299 34942 99.0 2684176.0 76.8
552 38951 37795 97.0 2932775.3 77.6
602 26334 23725 90.1 1863270.8 78.5
65 25322 4014 15.9 304512.0 75.9
Other ages   1361   894   65.7
30-602 222677 214811 96.5 155238 69.7 72.3
All ages   230954   165050   71.5
Risk group
screening
  19176   14470   75.5
Total 306103 250130 81.7 179520 58.6 71.8

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation year and the birth year.
2 Age groups targeted in the Decree on Public Health (1992).