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Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2016
Level of education | Students total | Employed students | Female students total | Of whom employed | Male students total | Of whom employed | |||
% | % | % | |||||||
General upper secondary education | 42 920 | 11 570 | 27,0 | 24 025 | 7 484 | 31,2 | 18 895 | 4 086 | 21,6 |
Vocational upper secondary education and training | 158 687 | 61 231 | 38,6 | 84 500 | 35 867 | 42,4 | 74 187 | 25 364 | 34,2 |
Further qualification | 55 491 | 35 817 | 64,5 | 29 633 | 18 750 | 63,3 | 25 858 | 17 067 | 66,0 |
Specialist qualification | 25 271 | 21 899 | 86,7 | 14 266 | 12 381 | 86,8 | 11 005 | 9 518 | 86,5 |
Polytechnic bachelors degree | 129 762 | 68 182 | 52,5 | 67 493 | 38 580 | 57,2 | 62 269 | 29 602 | 47,5 |
University bachelor degree | 81 265 | 38 720 | 47,6 | 41 758 | 22 117 | 53,0 | 39 507 | 16 603 | 42,0 |
Higher polytechnic degree (Master) | 11 001 | 9 504 | 86,4 | 7 134 | 6 184 | 86,7 | 3 867 | 3 320 | 85,9 |
Higher university degree (Master) | 54 445 | 32 506 | 59,7 | 30 486 | 18 367 | 60,2 | 23 959 | 14 139 | 59,0 |
Professional specialisation in medicine, veterinary and dentistry | 155 | 144 | 92,9 | 147 | 137 | 93,2 | 8 | 7 | 87,5 |
Licentiates degree | 1 046 | 802 | 76,7 | 519 | 427 | 82,3 | 527 | 375 | 71,2 |
Doctoral or equivalent level | 17 824 | 13 172 | 73,9 | 9 494 | 7 063 | 74,4 | 8 330 | 6 109 | 73,3 |
Total | 577 867 | 293 547 | 50,8 | 309 455 | 167 357 | 54,1 | 268 412 | 126 190 | 47,0 |
Source: Education. Statistics Finland
Inquiries: Vesa Hämäläinen 029 551 2594, koulutustilastot@stat.fi
Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma
Updated 14.3.2018
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Employment of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-0017. 2016,
Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2016
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 17.8.2024].
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