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Appendix table 1. Applicants to education and new students by educational sector and gender 2012 ¹⁾

Sector of education	Applicants to education			New students			The share of new students of all applicants, %
	Total	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men
Upper secondary general education	38 302	21 655	16 647	35 838	20 469	15 369	93,6	94,5	92,3
Upper secondary vocational education	138 596	72 905	65 691	111 876	56 975	54 901	80,7	78,1	83,6
Polytechnic education	102 595	61 953	40 642	37 404	21 267	16 137	36,5	34,3	39,7
University education	76 819	45 948	30 871	22 815	12 871	9 944	29,7	28,0	32,2
Total	356 312	202 461	153 851	207 933	111 582	96 351	58,4	55,1	62,6

1) Includes persons with a Finnish personal identity code. The applicant or student is included once in the numbers for the educational sector. In addition, 12,500 persons that did not have a Finnish personal identity code applied to education and 1,500 such persons began studying.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Riikka Rautanen 09 1734 2375, koulutustilastot@stat.fi

Director in charge: Riitta Harala

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Updated 29.4.2014