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Appendix table 3. Proportion of the unemployed among persons with tertiary level qualifications aged 18 to 64 of the labour force by field of education

  2003    2008    2009    2010    2011    2012    2013*  
Humanities and Arts 8,8 7,1 8,5 7,8 7,9 9,0 11,0
Technology 6,2 4,7 7,9 6,4 5,7 6,7 8,6
Natural Sciences 5,2 5,2 6,0 5,7 5,6 6,6 8,5
Social Sciences and Business 6,8 5,1 6,4 5,7 5,7 6,3 7,9
Agriculture and Forestry 6,1 5,4 6,2 5,5 5,6 6,1 7,2
Services 5,0 3,7 4,6 4,3 4,1 4,3 5,9
Teacher Education and Educational Science 3,2 3,1 3,4 3,1 3,2 3,6 4,2
Health and Welfare 3,6 1,9 2,2 2,1 1,9 2,2 2,8
All persons with higher university degree/Doctorate degree 5,9 4,4 5,9 5,2 5,0 5,7 7,2
All working-age people, total 12,0 9,0 11,6 10,4 9,9 10,8 12,6

Source: Employment Statistics, Statistics Finland

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Director in charge: Riitta Harala


Updated 16.12.2014

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Employment [e-publication].
ISSN=2323-6825. Background information on unemployed persons 2013, Appendix table 3. Proportion of the unemployed among persons with tertiary level qualifications aged 18 to 64 of the labour force by field of education . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.11.2024].
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