Most training to those in top professions

Employees in top professions received the most in-service training. In relative terms, legislators, senior officials and managers took most part in in-service training, that is, 63 per cent of them. Professionals and those with military occupations were almost as active participants in in-service training. The least training was given to employees belonging to the group elementary occupations, of whom less than one fifth took part in in-service training.

Employees with military occupations had clearly the highest number of training days in 1999, an average of ten per participant. Legislators, senior officials and managers had five days of training, on average.

3. Employees having participated in in-service training by occupation in 1999

Occupational group	Employees, total	Employees participating in in-service training	As a proportion of all employees %	Training days per participant (median)
Legislators, senior officials and managers	117,000	74,000	63.4	5.0
Professionals	410,000	252,000	61.4	5.0
Technicians and associate professionals	339,000	182,000	53.7	4.0
Clerks	184,000	90,000	48.8	4.0
Service and care workers, and shop and market sales workers	254,000	79,000	31.3	3.0
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	25,000	6,000	22.2	3.0
Craft and related trades workers	257,000	65,000	25.2	3.0
Plant and machine operators and assemblers	192,000	52,000	27.3	3.0
Elementary occupations	162,000	31,000	18.9	2.0
Armed forces¹⁾	11,000	7,000	61.9	10.0
Unknown	3,000	..	..	..
Total	1,955,000	838,000	42.9	4.0

1) The Finnish Defence Forces and the Frontier Guard arrange long-term supplementary training for their personnel.

.. Data too uncertain for presentation.

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Updated 1.1.2001

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Tarja Seppänen
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