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Appendix figure 5. Unemployment rates of persons with doctorate level and higher-degree level tertiary education by the field of science in 2008

Highly educated population finds employment better than the rest of the population. In 2008, 4.4 per cent of them were unemployed. At the same time the unemployment rate of total population was 6.4 per cent. Those with tertiary level degrees from medical and health sciences found employment the easiest. Only one per cent of them were unemployed. Those with degrees from humanities and arts have the weakest possibilities for finding employment. Their unemployment rate was six per cent.

Source: Human resources of science and technology 2009. Statistics Finland

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Updated 24.3.2011