http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/index_en.html Latest statistical releases from Statistics Finland on statistics Human resources of science and technology en http://www.stat.fi/favicon.png http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/index_en.html 32 32 http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2011/tthv_2011_2013-03-21_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, the employment rate of those with tertiary level degrees was 83.8 per cent in 2010. The figure was 15 percentage points higher than for people aged 15 to 64, on average. The employment rate has, as a rule, improved in all levels of education up to the recession in 2008, after which the employment rate of those with lower-level tertiary qualifications, in particular, decreased temporarily. The employment rate of doctors has remained high, at over 90 per cent throughout the decade. The employment rate of those with polytechnic degrees and higher-level university degrees is also at a record level. Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2011/tthv_2011_2013-03-21_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2010/tthv_2010_2012-03-22_tie_001_en.html Corrected on 26 March 2012. The correction is indicated in red. Was previously non-tertiary. According to Statistics Finland, 1,166,000 persons in Finland had tertiary level educational qualifications in 2009, which is nearly 30 per cent of the countrys population aged 16 to 74. Throughout the 2000s, the share has been growing at the annual rate of half-a-percentage point. Womens share in the highly educated population was 57 per cent. This share, too, has been growing steadily by some two percentage points in a decade. A person with at least post-secondary, non-higher vocational qualification is classified as highly educated. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2010/tthv_2010_2012-03-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2009/tthv_2009_2011-03-24_tie_001_en.html In 2008, 85 per cent of those with tertiary level degrees were employed, which is 14 percentage points higher than the employment rate of total population. The situation was best for those with doctorate level degrees, whose employment rate was over 90 per cent. The difference between the employment rate of women and men was small, only good one percentage point, while in total population it was three percentage points. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2009/tthv_2009_2011-03-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2008/tthv_2008_2010-04-22_tie_001_en.html In 2007, 44 per cent of those having completed doctorate level degrees worked in the sector of education. Three fourths of them were working at universities. Health care was the second biggest employer with a 16 per cent share. Nearly one tenth of those with doctorate level degrees were working in manufacturing. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2008/tthv_2008_2010-04-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2007/tthv_2007_2008-12-11_tie_001_en.html In 2006, one-third (33.4%) of the highly educated population aged 16 to 74 lived in the Region of Uusimaa, nine per cent in both Varsinais-Suomi and Pirkanmaa, and approximately seven per cent in North Ostrobothnia. The combined share of these four regions with the largest proportions was 58 per cent of the countrys highly educated population. Their share of the whole population of the country was 51 per cent. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2007/tthv_2007_2008-12-11_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2006/tthv_2006_2007-12-19_tie_001_en.html Twenty-seven per cent of the countrys population aged 16 to 74 held a tertiary level educational qualification in 2005. The share of highly educated population had increased by two percentage points since 2000, and was the highest in the Region of Uusimaa at 35 per cent. The Region of Kainuu had the lowest share of 21 per cent. Thirty-five per cent of the highly education population lived in Uusimaa, nine per cent in both Varsinais-Suomi and Pirkanmaa and approximately seven per cent in North Ostrobothnia. The share had increased most since 2000 in the Regions of Pirkanmaa and North Ostrobothnia and diminished most in the Regions of Lapland, Kainuu, Pohjois-Savo and Etelä-Savo. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2006/tthv_2006_2007-12-19_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2005/tthv_2005_2007-01-17_tie_001_en.html Altogether 20.5 per cent of highly educated employees changed jobs in 2004. The share was 2.5 percentage points lower than in 2000. The rate of mobility decreased most, from 28 to 23 per cent, among those with a degree at the doctorate level. Rates of mobility generally increase as the level of education rises, but an exception to this are persons with a licentiate level degree, among whom the rate of mobility was the lowest throughout the examined years. A highly educated person is here defined as someone with at least the lowest level of tertiary degree and mobility in this context refers to having changed jobs or become employed since the previous year. Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2005/tthv_2005_2007-01-17_tie_001_en.html