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Human resources of science and technology

Producer: Statistics Finland
Homepage: http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/index_en.html
Main topic: Science, Technology and Information Society
Related topics:
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Yes
European Statistical System (ESS): Yes

Description

Highly educated and skilled personnel is a key resource for science and technology. By definition, the reserve is formed by persons who have at least lower tertiary qualifications or work at demanding expert tasks. Those with researcher training are of particular interest. The statistics describe the development of the reserve of human resources of science and technology, demographic structure, placement in work and mobility. The OECD and EU recommendations are observed in the compilation of the statistics. The data are used by public science and technology administration, regional authorities and planning units and researchers. Personnel indicators are the key indicators describing the resources of science and technology.

Data content

The following information is described in the statistics yearly:

  • Tertiary level qualifications
  • Population with tertiary level qualifications
  • Placement in work of highly educated
  • Mobility of highly educated
  • Occupations of highly educated.

Classifications used

The classifications used in the statistics are:

  • Field of science
  • Level of studies
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Economic activity
  • Area
  • Nationality
  • Classification of occupations

Data collection methods and data sources

The data are collected from register materials produced by Statistics Finland: employment statistics, population statistics and Register of Completed Education and Degrees.

Updating frequency

Yearly.

Time of completion or release

Data on qualifications completed are released approximately 15 months from the end of the statistical reference year. Data on the highly educated population are released 27 months from the end of the statistical reference year. Exact release dates are reported in the Release Calender at http://tilastokeskus.fi/ajk/julkistamiskalenteri/index_en.html.

Time series

Qualifications starting from 1991. Others starting from 2000.

Keywords

degrees, education, employment, qualifications, science, research training, university degrees

Contact information

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/tthv/yht_en.html

Last updated 24.02.2016