Table 3. Participation rate and training hours in courses by gender broken down by field of activity and size class
Number of participants |
Participation rate in courses (proportion of all employees) |
Training hours in courses per employee (all employees) |
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Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | ||
% | % | % | hours | hours | hours | ||
Field of activity | |||||||
Mining and quarrying | 664 | 22,0 | 53,4 | 26,8 | 15,1 | 79,4 | 24,9 |
Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco | 20 931 | 60,3 | 51,1 | 55,6 | 11,3 | 8,8 | 10,1 |
Manufacture of textiles and textile products | 3 376 | 32,1 | 26,1 | 27,8 | 13,0 | 15,1 | 14,5 |
Manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media |
69 318 | 54,6 | 50,7 | 53,6 | 20,2 | 14,3 | 18,7 |
Manufacture of refined petroleum products, chemicals and chemical products |
17 780 | 46,8 | 47,0 | 46,9 | 13,8 | 14,0 | 13,9 |
Manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products | 18 066 | 44,8 | 36,5 | 43,4 | 19,8 | 19,4 | 19,8 |
Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c Manufacture of electrical and optical equipment |
44 333 | 50,3 | 46,6 | 49,3 | 19,4 | 22,0 | 20,1 |
Manufacture of transport equipment | 3 508 | 32,6 | 35,0 | 32,9 | 12,8 | 16,6 | 13,3 |
Manufacture of wood and wood products | 9 000 | 28,5 | 26,3 | 28,0 | 10,3 | 8,6 | 10,0 |
Electricity, gas and water supply | 8 391 | 73,9 | 76,8 | 74,6 | 25,9 | 27,3 | 26,2 |
Construction | 25 228 | 34,3 | 38,6 | 34,7 | 14,5 | 15,1 | 14,5 |
Sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; retail sale of automotive fuel |
8 855 | 50,6 | 41,4 | 48,8 | 13,9 | 12,2 | 13,6 |
Wholesale trade and commission trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles |
21 894 | 45,4 | 44,0 | 45,0 | 15,7 | 15,4 | 15,6 |
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles; repair of personal and household goods |
36 544 | 40,0 | 52,0 | 48,9 | 9,7 | 10,1 | 10,0 |
Hotels and restaurants | 25 711 | 50,0 | 65,7 | 61,5 | 15,4 | 11,5 | 12,6 |
Transport. Supporting and auxiliary transport activities | 28 879 | 34,9 | 56,2 | 41,6 | 18,6 | 33,2 | 23,2 |
Post and telecommunications | 51 271 | 80,1 | 83,3 | 81,5 | 25,4 | 23,1 | 24,4 |
Financial intermediation. Insurance and pension funding | 24 006 | 61,1 | 53,1 | 55,0 | 25,6 | 19,3 | 20,8 |
Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation | 521 | 42,5 | 37,0 | 40,0 | 12,1 | 6,2 | 9,5 |
Other services | 88 971 | 48,9 | 53,5 | 51,2 | 22,4 | 20,4 | 21,4 |
Sector | |||||||
Industrial sector | 220 595 | 46,5 | 45,3 | 46,2 | 17,2 | 15,6 | 16,8 |
Service sector | 286 651 | 50,0 | 57,1 | 53,6 | 19,6 | 18,1 | 18,8 |
Size class | |||||||
10 to 19 employees | 32 881 | 33,5 | 47,1 | 39,0 | 13,3 | 15,0 | 14,0 |
20 to 49 employees | 46 803 | 33,8 | 46,6 | 38,0 | 15,8 | 22,5 | 18,0 |
50 to 249 employees | 92 647 | 39,6 | 43,9 | 41,2 | 13,7 | 14,4 | 14,0 |
250 to 499 employees | 44 689 | 46,5 | 48,8 | 47,4 | 17,4 | 17,8 | 17,6 |
500 to 999 employees | 51 949 | 53,5 | 50,1 | 52,1 | 23,4 | 16,5 | 20,5 |
1000 employees or more | 238 276 | 60,6 | 63,4 | 61,7 | 21,9 | 18,1 | 20,3 |
Total | 507 246 | 47,9 | 53,5 | 50,1 | 18,2 | 17,3 | 17,9 |
Last updated 31.5.2005
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
CVTS, Continuing vocational training [e-publication].
ISSN=1798-0003. 1999,
Table 3. Participation rate and training hours in courses by gender broken down by field of activity and size class
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 23.12.2024].
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