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. 2014 Nov 6;14:1150. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1150

Table 5.

The turnout percentages of the 2008 municipal election in different areas of Finland

True results Reported by respondents in ATH
Area True * Self-reporting bias added # Crude 95% CI § Weighted 95% CI §
Continental Finland 61.3 70.7 78.2 (76.5 80.0) 72.9 (70.6 75.1)
Turku 58.6 68.8 77.3 (76.0 78.6) 72.9 (71.0 74.8)
Kainuu 53.7 65.2 71.9 (70.6 73.3) 68.5 (66.9 70.1)
Southern Oulu region 63.5 72.4 78.0 (75.8 80.3) 73.5 (70.8 76.1)
Oulu region 58.3 68.6 74.6 (72.8 76.5) 69.6 (67.3 71.8)

*True turnout percent by the Election Unit at the Ministry of Justice of Finland.

#Self-reporting bias added using Granberg and Holmberg [32]; 99% of the voters and 26% of the non-voters said that they voted.

Crude turnout percent.

Weighted turnout percent.

§95% confidence interval.