UPDATED 20.02.2014 10:00

Organised cervical cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1991. Numbers of women
in the target population, and invited and screened. Information registered from 411 municipalities (out of 461).

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.1990
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 27043 1033 3.8 5302.0 51.3
25 32424 16433 50.7 922128.4 56.1
302 33432 24931 74.6 1529345.7 61.3
352 35411 33353 94.2 2261463.9 67.8
402 35486 34993 98.6 2536371.5 72.5
452 38828 37943 97.7 2790871.9 73.6
502 31848 30769 96.6 2315472.7 75.3
552 23619 16503 69.9 1247552.8 75.6
602 23848 10712 44.9 801433.6 74.8
65 23926 3016 12.6 19898.3 65.9
Other ages   3856   2970   77.0
30-602 222472 188606 84.8 134223 60.3 71.2
All ages   213542   149531   70.0
Risk group
screening
  10860   5596   51.5
Total 305865 224402 73.4 155127 50.7 69.1

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).