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Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2012
Level of education | Students total | Employed students | Female students total | Of whom employed | Male students total | Of whom employed | |||
% | % | % | |||||||
Upper secondary general education | 45 630 | 12 943 | 28,4 | 25 536 | 8 512 | 33,3 | 20 094 | 4 431 | 22,1 |
Upper secondary vocational education | 224 371 | 119 329 | 53,2 | 119 056 | 67 137 | 56,4 | 105 315 | 52 192 | 49,6 |
Post-secondary non-higher vocational education | 92 | 90 | 97,8 | 13 | 12 | 92,3 | 79 | 78 | 98,7 |
Polytechnic degree (Bachelor) | 131 947 | 72 763 | 55,1 | 70 235 | 41 936 | 59,7 | 61 712 | 30 827 | 50,0 |
Lower university degree (Bachelor) | 96 230 | 49 205 | 51,1 | 48 861 | 26 962 | 55,2 | 47 369 | 22 243 | 47,0 |
Higher polytechnic degree (Master) | 7 834 | 6 983 | 89,1 | 4 980 | 4 460 | 89,6 | 2 854 | 2 523 | 88,4 |
Higher university degree (Master) | 48 048 | 29 634 | 61,7 | 28 117 | 17 282 | 61,5 | 19 931 | 12 352 | 62,0 |
Specialisation in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry | 4 169 | 3 871 | 92,9 | 2 866 | 2 653 | 92,6 | 1 303 | 1 218 | 93,5 |
Licentiate’s degree | 1 906 | 1 559 | 81,8 | 890 | 759 | 85,3 | 1 016 | 800 | 78,7 |
Doctoral degree | 18 687 | 14 458 | 77,4 | 9 843 | 7 653 | 77,8 | 8 844 | 6 805 | 76,9 |
Total | 578 914 | 310 835 | 53,7 | 310 397 | 177 366 | 57,1 | 268 517 | 133 469 | 49,7 |
Source: Education. Statistics Finland
Inquiries: Anna Loukkola 09 1734 3678, koulutustilastot@stat.fi
Director in charge: Riitta Harala
Updated 20.3.2014
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Employment of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-0017. 2012,
Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2012
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 17.8.2024].
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