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Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2015
Level of education | Students | Female students | Male students | ||||||
Total | Of whom employed | Total | Of whom employed | Total | Of whom employed | ||||
% | % | % | |||||||
Upper secondary general education | 44 013 | 11 448 | 26,0 | 24 717 | 7 460 | 30,2 | 19 296 | 3 988 | 20,7 |
Upper secondary vocational education | 234 764 | 112 261 | 47,8 | 125 438 | 64 192 | 51,2 | 109 326 | 48 069 | 44,0 |
University of applied sciences degree(Bachelor) | 129 508 | 67 030 | 51,8 | 68 167 | 38 468 | 56,4 | 61 341 | 28 562 | 46,6 |
Lower university degree (Bachelor) | 85 627 | 41 034 | 47,9 | 43 551 | 22 997 | 52,8 | 42 076 | 18 037 | 42,9 |
University of applied sciences degree (Master) | 10 162 | 8 823 | 86,8 | 6 503 | 5 659 | 87,0 | 3 659 | 3 164 | 86,5 |
Higher university degree (Master) | 52 119 | 30 819 | 59,1 | 29 631 | 17 511 | 59,1 | 22 488 | 13 308 | 59,2 |
Specialisation in medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry | 157 | 141 | 89,8 | 146 | 131 | 89,7 | 11 | 10 | 90,9 |
Licentiate’s degree | 1 274 | 992 | 77,9 | 638 | 518 | 81,2 | 636 | 474 | 74,5 |
Doctoral degree | 18 252 | 13 532 | 74,1 | 9 654 | 7 232 | 74,9 | 8 598 | 6 300 | 73,3 |
Total | 575 876 | 286 080 | 49,7 | 308 445 | 164 168 | 53,2 | 267 431 | 121 912 | 45,6 |
Source: Education. Statistics Finland
Inquiries: Vesa Hämäläinen 029 551 2594, koulutustilastot@stat.fi
Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma
Updated 17.3.2017
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Employment of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-0017. 2015,
Appendix table 2. Employment of students aged at least 18 by level of education and gender in 2015
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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