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Published: 30 August 2012

Completers of curriculum-based basic vocational education numbered 35,300 in 2011

According to Statistics Finland, completers of curriculum-based vocational education provided by educational institutions numbered 35,300 in 2011. The number of students was around 4,4 per cent up on the previous year. Fifty-three per cent of the qualifiers were men. The largest number, or 44 per cent, of the qualifications were attained in the field of technology and transport. The next largest numbers were attained in the fields of welfare, health and physical exercise (16 per cent) tourism, catering and economics (11 per cent) and business economics and administration (10 per cent). The shares of other fields of education were below 10 per cent.

Completers of curriculum-based basic vocational education by field of education 2011 ¹⁾

Field of education	Completers of education, total	Completers of education, men	Completers of education, women
Total	35 287	18 659	16 628
Humanities and Education	586	104	482
Culture	2 644	825	1 819
Economics and Administration	3 684	1 283	2 401
Natural sciences	1 046	908	138
Technology and Transport	15 407	12 829	2 578
Natural resources and the Environment	1 737	788	949
Welfare, Health and Sport	5 668	536	5 132
Tourism, Catering and Home economics	4 058	1 018	3 040
Other education	457	368	89

1) Excluding apprenticeship training.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Riitta Auvinen 09 1734 3569, koulutustilastot@stat.fi

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 30.8.2012