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Contents

• New members - Nouveaux membres 3• Changes in the programme 4• Rich history and active present in Suomenlinna 5• Two idyllic towns: Naantali and Porvoo 6• International Statistical Institute member’s tie 6• The medieval castles of Finland 7• Forests – economic and recreational resource 8• Turku, the former capital of Finland 9• Invitation speech 10• Nostalgia – the soul of the Finnish tango 11• Participant statistics 12• A pretty kettle of fish 13• Museums at hand 14• Mennään tanssimaan 15• International seminar on China agricultural

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Cover photograph copyright WSOY/National Board of Antiquities Asummer sight from Suomenlinna.

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We congratulate the following 34 new ISI members whowere elected in the first round of the 1999 ISI elections.

Honorary Membership

Van Zwet, Willem R. (Netherlands)

Ordinary Membership:

Ahn, Yunkee (Korea)Al-Kandari, Noriah (Kuwait)Astin, John A.. (UK)Baker, Rose D. (UK)Chen, Louis H.Y. (Singapore)Cook, Len (New Zealand)Dikhanov, Yuri (USA)Elsner, Eckart (Germany)Heckman, Nancy E. (USA)Hoffmann, Eivind (Norway)Kendall, Wilfrid S. (UK)Kutner, Michael H. (USA)Lee, Jung Jin (Korea)Lee, Kay-O (Korea)Lee, Yong-Goo (Korea)Lee, Young Jack (USA)Meganck, Bart (Belgium)Mellor, Robert W. (Australia)Nolan, Francis M. (New Zealand)Ohlsson, T. Esbjörn (Sweden)Park, Dong-Ho (Korea)Pigeot, Iris (Germany)Pohjola, Antero (Finland)Pukli, Péter (Hungary)Rayner, John C.W. (Australia)Schweinfest, Stefan (Germany)Siegmund, David O. (USA)Snijders, Thomas A.B. (Netherlands)Sung, Nae Kyung (Korea)Wang, George (USA)Ward, Michael (UK)Woo, Jungsoo (Korea)Zelias, Aleksander J. (Poland)

New members

Nous félicitons les 34 nouveaux membres de l’IIS pour leurélection au premier tour de 1999.

Membre d’Honneur:

Van Zwet, Willem R.(Pays-Bas)

Membres Titulaires:

Ahn, Yunkee (Corée)Al-Kandari, Noriah (Koweït)Astin, John A.. (Royaume-Uni)Baker, Rose D. (Royaume-Uni)Chen, Louis H.Y. (Singapour)Cook, Len (Nouvelle-Zélande)Dikhanov, Yuri (Etats-Unis)Elsner, Eckart (Allemagne)Heckman, Nancy E. (Etats-Unis)Hoffmann, Eivind (Norvège)Kendall, Wilfrid S. (Royaume-Uni)Kutner, Michael H. (Etats-Unis)Lee, Jung Jin (Corée)Lee, Kay-O (Corée)Lee, Yong-Goo (Corée)Lee, Young Jack (Etats-Unis)Meganck, Bart (Belgique)Mellor, Robert W. (Australie)Nolan, Francis M. (Nouvelle-Zélande)Ohlsson, T. Esbjörn (Suède)Park, Dong-Ho (Corée)Pigeot, Iris (Allemagne)Pohjola, Antero (Finlande)Pukli, Péter (Hongrie)Rayner, John C.W. (Australie)Schweinfest, Stefan (Allemagne)Siegmund, David O. (Etats-Unis)Snijders, Thomas A.B. (/Pays-Bas)Sung, Nae Kyung (Corée)Wang, George (Etats-Unis)Ward, Michael (Royaume-Uni)Woo, Jungsoo (Corée)Zelias, Aleksander J. (Pologne)

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Changes in the programme

Please check the fullprogramme of meetings wherechanges have been made. Thenew programme will bedisplayed at the door of themeeting room in question.

Saturday, 14 AugustIn the CPM73.1, the paper ofPatrick D. Bourke, scheduled at9.00, has been cancelled.

In IPM25, discussant HeikkiMannila (FINLAND) hascancelled his appearance.

The following presentation hasbeen moved from CPM28 toCPM133: “Improvementestimation of regressioncoefficients from censoreddata” by Ejaz S. Ahmend(CANADA). The presentation isscheduled at 10.15.

In IPM74, at 9.00, theintroduction will be given byDenise Lievesley (FRANCE)instead of Mary H.Regier.

The following presentation hasbeen moved from CPM132 toCPM11.2, scheduled at 11.00:”An iterative algorithm forlearning by support vectormachine. The patternrecognition case” by CorneliaEnachescu (ROMANIA) andDenis Enachescu.

Monday, 16 AugustIn IPM18, “Multiway data inpsychometrics andchemonetrics”, to be held at9.00, the talks of PieterKroonenberg and ClausAndersson will be given in thereverse order. Mr Anderssonwill speak at 9.04, and MrKroonenberg at 9.39.

In IPM36, Nick Fisher(AUSTRALIA) will be chair andpresenter of the introduction.The presentation of CorinnaCortes (UNITED STATES),scheduled at 16.30, has beencancelled.

In CPM28, Doo-Sub Kim hascancelled. The new programmeof the meeting below:

Stijn Vansteelandt, BELGIUM,will act as chairperson.

9.00 The cube of thecorrelation coefficient

*Yadolah Dodge(SWITZERLAND);

Valentin Rousson

9.15 Predicting multivariateresponses in non linearregression

L. D’Ambra; *R. Lombardo(ITALY)

9.30 A small samplemodification of an estimator ofa polynomial regression withmeasurement errors

Chi-Lun Cheng, *HansSchneeweis (GERMANY)

9.45 Sensitivity ofgeneralized linear modelling toincomplete outcomes

*Stijn Vansteelandt(BELGIUM), Els Goetghebeur

A new presentation forCPM104.1 at 11.00:”Demographic situation inRussia and problems ofinformation on population” byAndrei G. Volkov (RUSSIA).

New item for CPM81: at 17.00,“Intervalle de confiance del’indice de végétation, del’indice de brillance et de lamatière séche totalle” byAbdellani, F. and Chamayou, J.F. (FRANCE).

In CPM70, the presentationscheduled 13.45 ”Availability ofrepairable systems governed bysemi-Markov processes” byRafael Pérez-Ocón (SPAIN) andInmaculada Torres-Castro hasbeen cancelled.

In CPM137, a new paper hasbeen added, to be presented at14.45: “The set-up anddevelopment of the register“Bulstat” by G. Stanev(BULGARIA).

Tuesday, 17 AugustIn IPM32 at 9.00, thechairperson is W. K. Li.

In CPM134, the paper“Generalised kernel densityestimator” by Novak, Serguei(NETHERLANDS), scheduled at9.30, has been cancelled.

The following presentation hasbeen moved from CPM5.1 toCPM7.1, scheduled at 10.45:”Some remarks andmisunderstandings in multiplecomparisons methods” byCheslaw Domanski (POLAND),Dariusz Parys and LechoslawStepien.

IPM12 on “Whither statisticalpublishing?”, scheduled onTuesday 17 August at 13.00,has been cancelled.

Some names of the speakers ofIPM 42 “Statistical training ofpeople working in and withofficial statistics” have beenomitted by mistake in theInformation Bulletin No 3. Themeeting is to be held at 13.00 -15.15. These should be added:

As organisers:Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITEDSTATES

Smulders, René H. M., THENETHERLANDSAs chairpersons:Blumberg, Carol Joyce, UNITEDSTATES

Smulders, René H. M., THENETHERLANDSPapers: 13.25 Impact ofInternet on official statistics:User opportunities

* Bregar, Lea; Ograjensek,Irena (SLOVENIA)

In CPM3, a new paper hasbeen added and scheduled at14.45: “On the noncausalproblems in stochastic analysis”by *Shigeyoshi Ogawa.

A new presentation for CPM58,starting at 15.30, will be heardat 17.15: Comparison ofPredictive Accuracy of NeuralNetwork Methods and CoxRegression for CensoredSurvival Data, by Stanley Azen(UNITED STATES); Annie Xiang;Pablo Lapuerta; Alex Ryutovand Jonathan Buckley.

The following presentation hasbeen moved from CPM49.2 toCPM46.2: “Linear regressionfor survey data using regressionweights” by * Pedro Luis doSilva Nascimento (BRAZIL),Duarte Nogueira and PachecoRenata. The presentation isscheduled at 17.00.

An addition to CPM130,starting at 15.30: Operationalestimation of the Russian GDPdynamics, by Andrey Kosarev.The presentation is scheduledat 17.15.

Wednesday, 18 AugustIn IPM62, at 9.00, Joan Garfieldhas cancelled her appearance.The chairperson andintroductory speaker will beHeli Jeskanen-Sundström,FINLAND.

A new meeting, IPM84,President’s Invited PaperMeeting on “Recent advancesin probability and statistics”,will be held at 13.00 - 15.15 inmeeting room EL/136. Theorganiser is Willem van Zwet,the speakers will be

Jef Teugels Wind andStochastics

Elja Arjas Latent structuressupported by pointmeasurements

David Siegmund Mappingquantitative trait loci

Richard Tweedie Publicationanalysis in meta-analysis

In IPM20, at 13.00 - 15.15, thediscussant Bertrand S. Clarkefrom UK, has cancelled hispresentation.

In CPM132, at 13.00 - 15.15,the paper “Reseaux deneurones et regressionlogistique en finances” by AnaSilvia Haedo (ARGENTINA) andLeonardo Focsaner has beencancelled.In CPM86, scheduled at 15.30,the chairperson will be PaulSommerville.

In CPM38, scheduled at 15.30,the presentation of Filzmoser,Peter (AUSTRIA) has beencancelled.

In CPM30, the presentation ofY Wu (CANADA), scheduled at15.30, has been cancelled.


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• Suomenlinna is a village-likeresidential area almost in thecentre of the city, yet awayfrom the noise and the crowds(except in the summertime,when tourists throng thecobbled alleys). Some 900people live in Suomenlinna atpresent, and about 350 workthere all year round.

During its golden age in thelate 18th century, Suomenlinnawas the centre of the region’s

Rich history and active present in Suomenlinna

The Suomenlinna fortress which issituated on six small islands is only a 15-minute ferry ride off the Market Square.This unique monument of military historyis also a living part of Helsinki with itsown school, library, fire brigade, shop andhealth centre.

social life with grand partiesand balls. Helsinki had apopulation of some 4,000,while Suomenlinna at its besthoused over 12,000 soldierswith families, plus a number ofcraftsmen (such as the tannerand the maker of musicalinstruments), shopkeepers,teachers and clergymen.

40 years ofconstruction

Finland was still a part of theKingdom of Sweden in 1748when Sweden began buildingthe Suomenlinna fortress as apart of her consolidatedfortification against Russia. Thenewly built naval base ofKronstadt, near St. Petersburg,posed a clear threat to Sweden,and the fortification was toprevent Russia from expanding.

The construction ofSuomenlinna was the biggestbuilding project Sweden hasever undertaken. The buildingtook 40 years and thousands ofsoldiers took part in the work.Part of the building materialwas stone, quarried atVuosaari, east of Helsinki, andhauled to the construction sitewith horses along the frozensea during winter. Theconstruction work wassupervised by AugustinEhrensvärd, a young Swedishlieutenant colonel, who wasalso a clever organiser, plannerand politician.

Ehrensvärd’s hobby waslandscape painting and he is saidto have been the first artist to liveand work in Suomenlinna, wherearts have flourished ever since.One of the museums on theislands is dedicated toEhrensvärd and his life’s work.

Theatre, music,paintings

The unique atmosphere ofSuomenlinna has attractedartists ever since the earliestdays of the fortress. Many ofthe present dwellers are artists,and the gallery in the JettyBarracks exhibits contemporaryart in various forms.

One of the most famousmusicians who lived inSuomenlinna was thecomposer and clarinettistBernhard Henrik Crusell. Hestarted his career as a pupil inthe military band of Sveaborg(as the place was called beforeFinland became independent)in 1787. Later, he moved toStockholm where he worked asa court musician.

The bastion of HyväOmatunto (“clear conscience”)has housed a popular summertheatre for a couple of decades.A Helsinki theatre calledRyhmäteatteri (“grouptheatre”) has drawn full houses

there with mainly modernFinnish plays. One of theirgreatest successes was “TheLord of the Rings” byR.R.Tolkien.

The cruel war wasraging..

The six islands of Suomenlinnawere the scene of many battles,both during the Finnish War(between Sweden and Russia in1808-1909) and the CrimeanWar, when they were heavilybombarded by the English.When Finland became a GrandDuchy of Russia in 1809, thefortifications lost most of theirmilitary significance and becamenaval bases and garrisons.

Finland declared herselfindependent in December1917. After that, Suomenlinnabecame the home of a Finnishgarrison. During the gloomyfirst spring of independence in1918 it also served as a prisoncamp for the Reds, defeated inthe Civil War.

Apart from the old buildingsand museums, the NavalAcademy is the only remindertoday of Suomenlinna’s militarypast. As to the prison, somedozen or so cells have beenpreserved, and are to be foundnext door to the children’s daycare centre.

The streets of Suomenlinnahave no names, but all thebuildings are numbered.

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The Getty Barracks house abrewery, a pub and arestaurant.

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•The town originallydeveloped around a convent inthe 15th century. As a result ofthe Reformation about acentury later, the convent wasabolished. In the 18th century,a fountain was discoveredwhere the water had healingqualities. The water was said tocure headache and paralysis, aswell as hypochondria.

The fountain was a startingpoint for a spa. It broughtthousands of visitors toNaantali and enlivened thetown’s social life in the 19thcentury. There is a spa in thetown even today, althoughmore luxurious and diversifiedthan its predecessor.

The Poet’s Porvoo

The town of Porvoo is thesecond oldest (after Turku) inFinland, as it was granted townrights in the middle of the 14thcentury. It was a centre of tradewhere goods such as furs andtimber were exported toCentral Europe and

Two idyllic towns:Naantali and Porvoo

Naantali is today best known for theMoomin World and Kultaranta, thesummer residence of the president of therepublic. It is a popular holiday resort andtourist attraction because of its locationand its picturesque narrow streets and oldwooden buildings.

The old storehouses by the river in Porvoo.

Decorative wooden houses and cobbled alleys are typical ofNaantali..

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commodities like salt wereimported.

Porvoo was a culturallysignificant town in the 18thand 19th centuries. The firstpublic library in Finland wasopened in Porvoo in 1728.Porvoo was also the hometownof the poet J.L. Runeberg, whowrote the words to the Finnishnational anthem, Maamme(“Our Land”).

The publishing industry haslong traditions in Porvoo. Thepublishing house WSOY,established over a hundredyears ago, is today in the formof Sanoma-WSOY the secondbiggest in Scandinavia. Anotherimportant employer in Porvoo isthe Fortum oil refinery.

The old town is Porvoo’smain tourist attraction,although the area with itswooden houses is not uniquein Finland. The largestpreserved wooden house areain Finland is in Rauma, anothermedieval seaside town 100kilometres north of Turku.


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• Viipuri Castle has belongedto Russia since the SecondWorld War. Raasepori andKastelholm are in ruins, butOlavinlinna and the castles ofTurku and Häme have beenpreserved and restored.Olavinlinna, in the small townof Savonlinna north of the lakeSaimaa, is the home of animmensely popular operafestival each summer. Medievalfeasts are organised in TurkuCastle, and Häme Castlespecialises in cultural events forchildren. All three are alsomuseums.

Sunday’s tours take us totwo of these: Häme Castle(Lakeland Tour) and TurkuCastle (Historical andArchipelago Tour).

The red brick prison ofHämeenlinna

The Finnish word for castle islinna. The castle has given thename to the surrounding townin the case of Hämeenlinna, thecastle of Häme. The first part ofthe name, though, derives fromthe province of Häme.

It has been estimated thatthe building of Häme Castlebegan towards the end of the13th century. Unlike otherFinnish castles, it is built ofbrick, apart from the groundfloor. The bricks weremanufactured on the spot byGerman craftsmen.

There had always beensome cells in Häme Castle, butin 1836, in the Russian period,the whole castle was convertedinto a prison. During its last 90years of operation it served as awomen’s prison. The prisonfunctions were graduallyabandoned after 1953, givingway to research andrestoration.

Royal grandeur inTurku

Turku Castle was probablyfounded around 1280. It wasextended and rebuilt severaltimes, until it comprised 40rooms and was one of the

The medieval castles of Finland

Six castles of national importance were built in Finland in the medieval period. Theywere the castles of Turku, Häme, Viipuri, Raasepori, Olavinlinna and Kastelholm. Theywere built to serve both defensive and administrative purposes after Finland hadbecome part of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 12th century.

Dinner is served at the Turku castle.

A detail of the wall of the Häme castle.

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largest in Northern Europe inthe early 15th century.

A “Royal Suite” was built inTurku Castle for the occasionalvisits of the monarch fromSweden. The longest visit lastedeleven months, and in 1555 -1556 the entire Kingdom ofSweden was ruled from TurkuCastle.

Duke John, son of GustavWasa, King of Sweden, lived inthe castle in the middle of the16th century with his Polish-born wife Katarina Jagellonica.They brought to Finland manynew ideas on fashion and socialcustoms.

The museum of Turku Castleexhibits clothing, tableware andtoys from the 17th centuryonwards.


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• Keskuspuisto, the CentralPark of Helsinki, begins in theHesperia park surrounding theFinlandia Hall. I turns into aforest a couple of kilometresfurther north, and extends overthe border to Vantaa, morethan 30 kilometres away.

Nuuksio, the destination ofthe Hiking Tour on Sunday, isone of the recreational areasowned by the City of Helsinkiand an example of a southernwilderness. The most valuablewilderness areas are in northernFinland.

Finnish culture has its rootsdeep in the forests. Huntingand fishing, tar distillation,logging, building and the woodprocessing industry have beenthe foundation of Finland’snational economy. Learninghow to produce pulp andpaper from wood broughtabout prosperity in the 19thcentury society and enabled themodernisation of agricultureand the building of towns,roads, railways and schools.

Forests – economic and recreationalresource

When you look at Finland from an airplane, it looks like one huge forest. It is nowonder, because almost two thirds of the land area is covered with trees, even now,after centuries of diverse use of wood.

Read more at:virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/metsaneg.html

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tree are pine, spruce and birch.Some 2.6 per cent of the

total productive forestland isunder protection. Innorthernmost Finland theproportion of protected forestis almost 40 per cent.

Escape to thewilderness

In Finnish literature, a popularcharacter has always been aman who escapes the civilisedsociety and hides himself in thewoods. For a Finn, a forest is asafe place offering shelter,peace of mind and recreation.Hiking, skiing, orienteering,hunting and picking wildberries and mushrooms arepopular pastimes even amongthe urbanised Finns.

Things seem to be changing.In decades gone by, every Finnfound his way about in a forest.Recently, news have reported ofseveral cases of scouts whohave got lost in the forest.Formerly, if anyone knew how

The green gold ofFinland

For a hundred years, forestswere rightfully referred to as“the green gold of Finland”.Wood is a renewable naturalresource, and in the agriculturalsociety wood was used forbuilding houses and keepingthem warm, feeding the cattle(with young birch shoots),making furniture, tools, basketsand other containers. Birch sap- a liquid drained through holesbored in birch trunks - was ahealthy drink in the spring, andwhen frost had damaged thecrop, pine bark was used tosupplement rye meal in bread.

Pulp and paper industry isstill an important exportbranch, and during the presentdecade the importance ofecological forestry has beengenerally understood. Finland’sforests host around 20,000species, i.e. almost one half ofall the species known in thecountry. The main species of

to orienteer in the forest, it wasa scout. Luckily, these modernscouts had their mobile phoneswith them even on a hike, sothey could call for help.

Afraid of beasts?

One reason for a possible fearof going into the forest is theincreased sightings of bears insouthern Finland. Becausebears are protected, there areabout 1,000 of them in Finland,all over the country. Hunting isonly permitted on a limitedscale.

Despite the great number ofbears, they are very seldomseen, as they tend to carefullyavoid people. This is the normalbehaviour of wild animals –they prefer running away ifthey possibly can.


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• Because Helsinki, Espoo andVantaa are often treated as one- the Helsinki Metropolitan Area- Turku is, in fact, one of thethree major cities.

The oldest part of the townis around the Cathedral, on theeastern bank of the Aurajokiriver. When the old trading siteon the river developed into atown in the 13th century, acastle was built on an island inthe estuary of the river.

Turku Castle is the best-

Turku, the former capital of Finland

Turku is the oldest town in Finland, celebrating its 770th anniversary next year. Turkuwas the capital of Finland until 1812. Today, Turku’s population of 171,000 makes itofficially the fifth largest town in Finland, after Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere and Vantaa.

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Interior of the Turku Castle.

preserved medieval castle inFinland, and the home of theCity of Turku historicalmuseum. On the “Historicaland Archipelago Tour” onSunday, you will visit the Castle,where Finnish history isexhibited in the form offurniture, clothing andtableware.

Apart from the Cathedraland Castle, there are manyspecial museums in Turku, suchas the Naval Museum and the

Pharmacy Museum. The ArtisanMuseum in Luostarinmäki is acollection of homes andworkshops of 18th and 19thcentury craftsmen in woodenhuts.

Turku is also the home oftwo universities, the Finnish-speaking University of Turku,and Finland’s only Swedish-speaking university, ÅboAkademi. A third importantseat of learning is the TurkuSchool of Economics. As the

provincial capital Turku is theregional and administrativecentre for the west of Finland.

Turku is a nationallysignificant seaport, as well as acommercial and fair city. Thered and white car ferries, big asblocks of flats, ply betweenTurku and Stockholm day andnight. On the Sunday tour, youwill have a glimpse of thebeautiful archipelago, throughwhich the ferries run.


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• First of all, I would like toexpress my sincere thanks andcongratulations to the NationalOrganizing Committee ofFinland. Its excellent work andthorough preparation havemade 52nd ISI Session anoutstanding and very impressiveone.

I would like to highlyappreciate the successfulsession and the generoushospitality rendered by theNational OrganizingCommittee of Finland.

As Chairman of the NationalOrganizing Committee ofKorea, I am very pleased andhonored to invite you to the53rd session of the ISI in Seoul.

The Executive Committee ofthe ISI had reached anagreement with the KoreanGovernment to hold the 53rdsession of the ISI in Seoul,Korea. And it was approved bythe General Assembly of theISI during its 51st Session in1997 in Istanbul, Turkey. It is agreat honor and pleasure forme to announce that Koreawill host the next ISI Sessionin Seoul, from August 22ndto 29th, 2001.

The Seoul Session will take

Invitation speechbyYoung-Dae YoonCommissioner of NSO Korea

place as the world is enteringthe new millennium. It iseveryone’s hope that the newmillennium will bring freedom,peace and prosperity tohumankind. As we know verywell, statistics provide theground for these ultimate goalsof the new era. It is moreevident than ever that adequatepolicies to achieve freedom,peace and prosperity cannot beformulated without timely,accurate, and reliable statistics.

The new millennium posesus a host of challenges andpressing issues, which requireeffective solutions. To meet thechallenges more effectively,statisticians should envision thefuture mission of statistics in anew way – to identify newstandards for statisticalactivities, to explore new areasof statistics and to devise newstatistical methods andtechniques. The developmentof innovative ways of doingstatistics will help us betterprepared for the challenges ofthe coming era. Therefore, weshould begin the newmillennium with new statistics.

This is the reason why Koreais happy and proud to host the

first Session of the newmillennium. Two years from now,the foremost statisticians of theworld will gather in Seoul, fromthe academic world, officialstatistical institutions, and fromthe business community. Seoul isa cosmopolitan metropolis wherepast and present are integratedin a magnificent fashion. Rich incenturies of history, the city is onthe ascent to an even brighterfuture. It will create a perfectsetting for a successful meeting.

On behalf of the KoreanGovernment and the KoreanNational OrganizingCommittee, I would like toinvite all of you to come to the

next Session of the ISI in Seoul.Your valuable contributions tothis meeting will be highlyappreciated and lead to itssuccess. The NationalOrganizing Committee ofKorea will do its utmost tomake the Session fulfilling anddelightful. If you come toSeoul, there will be good thingswaiting for you.

I look forward to meetingyou in Seoul, and showing youthe meaning of Koreanhospitality.

Thank you very much.


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•The Finnish tango is not quitethe same as the originalversion. The tempo is slower,and the style of dancing isconspicuously different,unassuming and restrained. Themelodies are often in a minorkey, and the lyrics mainlylonging and nostalgic, withlaments of lost love.

Tango Kings andQueens

A tango festival is held everysummer in the smallOstrobothnian town ofSeinäjoki. It attracts over ahundred thousand visitors tothe festival venue, plus a coupleof million in front of the TVsets. A Tango King and Queenare elected in a toughcompetition, in which not onlythe performer’s singing voicebut also his or her generalstage presence count.

Being elected Tango King orQueen has boosted the careersof many of today’s best-sellingsingers of popular music, suchas Jari Sillanpää and ArjaKoriseva. Without the contest,Mr Sillanpää might still bemixing drinks for passengersaboard a ferry to Sweden, andMs Koriseva teaching childrenat a country school.

The great names

The tango first appeared inFinland in the twenties, but itbecame the favourite ofdancing pavilions in the fiftiesand sixties. One explanationwas that the “Dynamic Duo”of the Finnish popular music,composer Toivo Kärki and

Nostalgia - the soul of the Finnish tango

Argentina, Japan and Finland have at least one thing in common: they are great tangonations. Some Argentinean bands even include Finnish tangos in their repertoire, andsome Finnish tango singers have recorded songs with Argentinean bands.

Tango on a bright summer night on an open-air dance pavilion.

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lyricist Reino Helismaa began towork together. They producedall kinds of songs at anincredible pace, but the mostpopular ones were tangos.

Unto Mononen was atalented and successful tangocomposer who died in 1968, atthe age of only 38. In his songsthe singer very often dreams ofan unattainable land ofhappiness. His song Satumaa,the fairyland, can be regardedas the prototype of the Finnishtango. The melody is solemn,and the lyrics depict unrequitedlove and longing to a paradiselost.

“Over there beyond theocean,there’s the happy land,where the waves so softlykissits warm and golden sand.Charming flowers spreadtheir fragrance and soothe atroubled mind. There’s noplace for sorrow - onlyhappiness you’ll find.”

In the sixties, the countrywas divided into Beatles-Finlandand tango-Finland. Itsometimes happened that anunsuspecting rock groupaccepted a gig in the tangoarea. When they began to playin their usual style, the sturdiestwrestling champions of theregion approached them andthreatened to beat the bandblack and blue if they daredplay anything but tango.


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Participant statistics

The total number of registered participants on 13 August is 1,948 from 95 countries.When you exclude the conference staff of around 100, the number is 1,848. Thenumber of accompanying persons is 249. The geographical division is as follows:

One participant each came from the following countries: Bhutan, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, People’s DemocraticRepublic of Lao, Macau, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mosambique, Oman, Panama, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Swaziland,Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe.

Country Participants Accompanyingpersons

New Zealand 8 1

Ukraine 8 -

Hungary 7 1

Russian Federation 7 1

South Africa 7 1

Croatia 6 1

Iceland 6 1

Latvia 5 -

Nigeria 5 2

Yugoslavia 5 -

Cote d’Ivoire 4 -

Indonesia 4 -

Ireland 4 1

Lithuania 4 -

Saudi Arabia 4 -

Thailand 4 2

Uganda 4 -

Botswana 3 1

Cyprus 3 -

Egypt 3 -

Kuwait 3 -

Malaysia 3 -

Mexico 3 2

Slovenia 3 -

United Republic of Tanzania 3 -

Vietnam 3 -

Bulgaria 2 -

Chile 2 -

Pakistan 2 -

Palestine 2 -

Romania 2 2

Rwanda 2 -

Senegal 2 -

Slovakia 2 -

Country Participants Accompanyingpersons

Finland (staff excluded) 499 12

United States 178 41

Japan 100 38

Italy 82 20

Germany 78 17

United Kingdom 74 11

Sweden 72 1

France 64 8

Korea 63 3

Netherlands 46 9

China 45 1

Canada 36 8

Australia 27 8

Spain 26 5

Switzerland 24 6

Poland 20 1

Turkey 19 -

Belgium 18 1

Denmark 18 1

Islamic Republic of Iran 18 1

Taiwan 18 4

Argentina 15 2

F.Y. R. of Macedonia 14 -

Norway 13 1

Argentina 12 -

Israel 12 3

Luxembourg 12 5

Brazil 11 1

Greece 9 3

Austria 8 1

Czech Republic 8 3

Estonia 8 1

Hong Kong, China 8 1

India 8 1


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An introduction to Finnish Cuisine Part 5

• Baltic herring casserole(silakkalaatikko) is a rarity thesedays, but used to be a handyall-in-one-dish that “cookeditself” in the oven. It is made oflayers of sliced potatoes and

A pretty kettle of fish

According to a saying you know you have stayed too long in Finland when you knowhow to prepare Baltic herring (silakka) in at least 105 ways. Available year round, andinexpensive and adaptable for numerous dishes, it used to be one of the most popularingredients in poor people’s diet in the past. This silvery, 10 - 15 cm long, fat fish canbe grilled, marinated, pickled, salted, fried and boiled, used in stews, soups, pies andpasties.

salted Baltic herring, with somebacon slices on top. SmokedBaltic herring is a delicacy easyto find even today on MarketSquare stalls. On a typicalFinnish buffet (voileipäpöytä),

or smorgasbord, you canexpect to find this fine fishprepared in at least a couple ofdifferent ways.

The king of fishes

Salmon (lohi) is the most valuedfish. The “real thing” is caughtin the sea or in the rivers ofLapland, but a less costlysubstitute is its darker pink,smaller cousin, rainbow trout(kirjolohi), from the fish-breeding basins. The roe ofrainbow trout is a popularexport item.

Salmon is used in variousways: grilled, boiled or stuffed,but a Finnish festive speciality is

slightly salted salmon (gravadlax/graavilohi), a favourite on aChristmas table as well as forcelebrating the arrival of thefirst new potatoes of thesummer. Any fat fish can beprepared this way, but salmonand whitefish (siika) areconsidered the best. The filletedfish is sprinkled with a mixtureof rock salt, ground whitepepper, a pinch of sugar andchopped dill, then wrapped upand stored in cold with aweight on top. The next day itis ready to be eaten in thinslices on bread or with plain,boiled potatoes.

Fish soup is a popular lunchdish all year round. In winter itis often made of burbot(made), in spring of pike(hauki), in summer of perch(ahven), usually angled fromthe jetty of the holiday cottage.Salmon, whitefish and rainbowtrout are used round the year.In addition to fish, the basicingredients of a typical Finnishfish soup are potatoes, onion,salt and white pepper, andsometimes carrots. A Finnishpeculiarity is the use of milk inthe soup, sometimes replacedor supplemented by cream. Dillis essential, and chives(ruohosipuli) are also used.

Chives are a popular herb inmost kitchen gardens, but theyalso grow wild on the rocks ofthe seaside and islands. Manypeople who do not like onion,accept the mild onion-like tasteof chives. It goes particularlywell with scrambled eggs andtomatoes and all kinds of fishdishes.

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• Finlandia Hall is surroundedby museums. Unfortunately,the National Museum justacross the street is closed forrenovation. Helsinki CityMuseum, at Hakasalmi Villa -the pink building a few stepsfrom the conference wing - hasjust reopened. The Villa used tobelong to the great benefactorAurora Karamzin, but is now ageneral museum depicting thelife of the people of Helsinkifrom the 19th century to thepresent time.

Across the yard, in a smallerbut equally pink building, thereis a small café in the style of themuseum, called CaraMelle.

The large yellow buildingbetween Kiasma, the Museumof Contemporary Art (of whichthere is an article in Thursday’sDaily Bulletin) and the CentralRailway Station is the main postoffice. In the corner closest tothe station there is a small butinteresting special museum: thePost Museum. In addition tostamps, old post buses andcarriages, there are eightmultimedia displays (most ofthem in four languages) whereyou can explore on your own.There is an elegant café and ashop at the Museum entrance.

The Museum of Art andDesign, situated in the southernpart of central Helsinki, exhibitsthings which, according to

Museums at hand

Where to go and what to do

Read more atwww.hel.fi/kaumuseowww.posti.fi/postimuseowww.designmuseum.fi

Helsinki City Museum at Hakasalmi Villa.

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Russell Snyder “you’d love tohave at home if only you couldafford them.” In other words,an extensive collection ofFinnish design and crafts. Inaddition to permanentcollections, it arranges specialexhibitions. An exhibition ofsilver objects from the Danish

Court, entitled “Table Settingsfor a Queen”, was openedthere on August 11. To getthere, take tram number 10from Mannerheimintie. Themuseum is atKorkeavuorenkatu, almostopposite the neo-gothic stylebrick church of St. John.


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Teach yourself Finnish Part 5

Here are some phrases that may prove useful on your weekendadventures in Helsinki and surroundings. Going to the cinema, bythe way, is not a bad idea in Helsinki. All imported films (most ofthem from U.S.A.) are shown with the original sound, with Finnishand Swedish subtitles. The tickets cost FIM 40 to 50 on weekends,but on weekday afternoons they may be cheaper.

Mennään Let’s go (a suggestion)Mennäänkö Shall we go (a question)?

tanssimaan to danceelokuviin to the cinemaoluelle for a beerravintolaan to a restaurant

The verb form mennään is in fact a passive form, but colloquiallyused for the first person plural, “we’re going/we’ll go”. In thefollowing examples, the informal address (haluaisitko, sinusta, etc.)is used.

Haluaisitko jotain juotavaa? Would you like a drink? (lit.“something to drink”)

Kiitos, mielelläni. Yes, please.Kippis! Cheers!

Saanko luvan? May I have this dance?Tanssit oikein hyvin. You dance very well.Oli oikein hauskaa. I have enjoyed myself very much.Voimmeko tavata uudelleen? May I see you

(lit. “can we meet”) again?Pidän sinusta kovasti. I like you very much.Minä rakastan sinua. I love you.

Beware of the last sentence, though, for Finns do not use itfrivolously. If a Finn says these words to you, you had better beprepared for booking a wedding church - or else run away, far andfast!

Mennääntanssimaan!

Helsinki City Museum, Hakasalmi Villa, Karamzininkatu 4Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Entrance fee: FIM 20 for adults, under 18-year-olds free.

Post Museum, Asema-aukio 5Open Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Free entrance

Museum of Art and Design, Korkeavuorenkatu 23Open Monday to Friday from noon to 7 p.m., weekends from noonto 6 p.m.Entrance fee: FIM 50 for adults, children free.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Beijing China,11-14 April 2000China, with the technical assistance of four Italy/FAO projects,conducted its First Agricultural Census in 1997. It was one of thelargest statistical surveys ever conducted in the world. Now thatthe census data has been processed, tabulated and can bedisseminated, an International Seminar will be organized in Beijing(China) to present the results and the first analyses.

The Seminar will focus on:• methodologies used for taking the Agricultural Census;• a new and more detailed picture of the structure of the

Chinese Agriculture;• improvement of the Agricultural Statistics;• analyses of the main results obtained;• impact of the Agricultural Census results on the development

plans in China;• international comparisons of Agricultural Census data.

Invited papers will be presented and discussed in different sessionsof the seminar. The Program is currently under preparation by anInternational Program Committee.

For an up-to-date program and other seminar information, visit the“China Census Seminar” web site at http//www.fao.org and sendan e-mail to: or


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