Northern Finland Birth Cohorts and Arctic Biobank

University of Oulu has collected several extensive population survey data sets, such as the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts NFBC1966 and NFBC1986, and two cohorts from northern Finland aging individuals Oulu1935 and Oulu1945. As part of the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts – Research program for health and well-being cohort members have been studied on a regular basis since the fetal period.

Large collections of biological samples are administrated by Arctic Biobank – University of Oulu located at Infrastructure for Population Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu.

Infrastructure for Population Studies provides basic education related to statistics at the Faculty of Medicine. In addition, we offer statistical services for students and researchers.

Northern Finland Birth Cohorts – Research program for health and well-being

Northern Finland Birth Cohorts comprise collections of data from large population studies that are administrated by the Infrastructure for Population Studies at the Medical Faculty, University of Oulu.

The Northern Finland Birth Cohorts form a longitudinal research program which aims to promote health and well-being of the population.

The data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts - Research program for health and well-being can be requested for research collaboration projects with University of Oulu.

Northern Finland Birth Cohorts

Arctic Biobank

Arctic Biobank – University of Oulu was established in 2020 to host large population-based sample collections from Northern Finland. Biological samples and relating data collected before 2013 in Northern Finland Birth Cohorts – Research program for health and well-being can be requested from Arctic Biobank.

Arctic Biobank aims to promote research in health and well-being, and in medicine and life sciences. It provides samples and data for high-quality research projects aimed at elucidating the causes of disease and the impact of genetics, environment, and lifestyles on their onset.

Arctic Biobank

Statistical services and teaching

Infrastructure for Population Studies offers teaching in statistics to undergraduate students of medicine, dentistry and nursing sciences. In addition, we offer statistical services for students and researchers.

Statistical counselling

Statistical counselling for students and researchers at the Faculty of medicine is free of charge.

Statistical counselling is available on Wednesdays (starting from 21.8.2024) at 15-16 in IT room KT285 (Aapistie 5B). Pre-registration is not required, but the helpdesk will be closed at 15.15 if there are no participants.

For personal counselling and guidance, reservations can be made via the appointment calendar.

Please, note that once you have made the calendar booking, a verification code is send to you by email and you need to use the code to verify your booking on the web popup page. You know to have succeeded when getting "Thank you for booking with us! You will get a confirmation message in email shortly" and followed by the email.

If you don’t receive a messages, please check your junk mail folder.

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You must make the reservation at least 24 hours before the appointment. The same applies to cancellations when feasible. When you make the reservation, describe shortly in the description –field ("Notes") the matter you need help with.

Examples regarding the counselling topics:

Data sets

You need to know how a certain variable has been formed or what are the labels for variable values.
When you are preparing a material request in the Greip system and have questions regarding the variables.

Research

You need advice regarding your advanced thesis / pro-graduate thesis or for a scientific publication. For example when you need decide what is the proper statistical analysis to use.

Statistical software

Compiling different data sets, filtering data, forming new variables, descriptive statistics, and graphical presentation or performing a certain statistical analysis with a given software.