Appendix table 1. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2014, boys

		Compulsory language A1	Optional language A2	Compulsory language B1	Elective language B2	Boys total	Share of boys in grades 1-6 %	Share of boys in grades 7-9 %
Grades	Studied language
Grades 1-6	English	112 517	6 822	.	.	119 339	65.6	.
	Swedish	1 377	5 985	.	.	7 362	4.0	.
	Finnish	7 339	441	.	.	7 780	4.3	.
	French	1 201	1 596	.	.	2 797	1.5	.
	German	1 455	4 607	.	.	6 062	3.3	.
	Russian	492	991	.	.	1 483	0.8	.
	Spanish	177	550	.	.	727	0.4	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	2	91	.	.	93	0.1	.
	Other	158	66	.	.	224	0.1	.
Grades 7-9	English	83 016	6 252	101	26	89 395	.	99.3
	Swedish	977	4 673	76 950	202	82 802	.	92.0
	Finnish	4 458	686	83	1	5 228	.	5.8
	French	553	1 330	64	1 321	3 268	.	3.6
	German	717	3 400	232	3 314	7 663	.	8.5
	Russian	238	346	.	1 564	2 148	.	2.4
	Spanish	17	317	.	915	1 249	.	1.4
	Italian	0	0	.	58	58	.	0.1
	Sami	0	22	.	0	22	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	132	132	.	0.1
	Other	48	2	.	6	56	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 22.5.2015

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2014, Appendix table 1. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2014, boys . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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