UPDATED 20.02.2014 10:27

Organised cervical cancer screening programme in Finland in the invitation year 1999. Numbers of women
in the target population, and invited and screened. Information registered from 427 municipalities (out of 452).

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.1998
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 29257 757 2.6 2941.0 38.8
25 28320 8815 31.1 510018.0 57.9
302 29363 22029 75.0 1358446.3 61.7
352 33773 31885 94.4 2137963.3 67.1
402 34184 33710 98.6 2477072.5 73.5
452 36544 34684 94.9 2592670.9 74.7
502 38818 38278 98.6 2953176.1 77.1
552 28333 25325 89.4 1965769.4 77.6
602 27110 20660 76.2 1635760.3 79.2
65 22988 3509 15.3 271411.8 77.3
Other ages   1439   1024   71.2
30-602 228125 206571 90.6 151204 66.3 73.2
All ages   221091   160336   72.5
Risk group
screening
  17756   13175   74.2
Total 308690 238847 77.4 173511 56.2 72.6

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).