Expert assessments of employment areas

The KEHA Centre’s expert assessments of the effectiveness of employment services are published on this page.

The first broader assessments will be published at 2026, but shorter Statistics Bulletins on the new service system’s development has already published in 2025.

The contents of the KEHA Centre's expert assessments are primarily determined by the Act on the Organisation of Employment Services, the Act on Regional Centres for Economic Development and on the Employment, Development and Administrative Centre and the Government Decree concerning the latter Act (935/2025, sections 23–27).

The assessment examines

  • progress towards national targets set for employment services,
  • key performance indicators for the functioning and resourcing of employment officials,
  • the efficiency, use, availability, quality and impact of employment services,
  • the evolution and composition of jobseekers and available jobs, and
  • the performance of statutory tasks related to the provision of employment services and unemployment security by officials (for example, statutory prerequisites for a jobseeker’s service process and the unemployment security process).

The expert assessments’ knowledge base is founded on

  • indicator and statistical data collected the from KEHA Centre’s registers (the KEHA Centre’s Employment Service Statistics in particular),
  • information on employers and jobseekers collected from the KEHA Centre’s registers (Job Market Finland for Experts, General Grant System, Job Market Finland),
  • information on the hiring of jobseekers and on the use of benefits from the Finnish Tax Administration's Incomes Register,
  • information collected from employment areas through interviews and surveys,
  • the areas’ own documents, annual reports and financial statements and
  • reports on the provision of employment services as specified in the duties of the Regional State Administrative Agency.

  • Uusimaa: Petri Syvänen (Head Researcher) and Suvi Timonen (Researcher)
  • Southwest Finland, Satakunta and Southeast Finland: Sebastian Adolfsson (Researcher)
  • Pirkanmaa and Central Finland: Miika Hakala (Researcher)
  • Häme: Riitta Kinnunen (Researcher)
  • North Karelia, South Savo and North Savo: Linda Typpö (Researcher)
  • Ostrobothnia and South Ostrobothnia: Silja Uusikangas (Researcher)
  • North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lapland: Mia Pylkkönen (Researcher)
  • The Head of Evaluation and Knowledge Management Unit: Santtu Sundvall, santtu.sundvall@keha-keskus.fi

You can send a request for information to the email address tietopalvelu@keha-keskus.fi.

The first official expert assessments will be published in spring 2026. The assessments will be published on a separate publication platform and in PDF format in the Doria publication archive

The Doria publication archive (doria.fi)

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