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<title>Size of population with educational qualifications has multiplied many times over in 40 years</title>
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<description>By the end of 2010, a total of 3,005,000 persons in Finland had attained post-comprehensive level educational qualifications in upper secondary general school education, vocational education, polytechnic education or university education. Four decades earlier, their number was 3.4 times lower, or 882,000. By the end of 1970, one out of four and by the end of 2010 two out of three in the population aged 15 or over had attained a post-comprehensive level educational qualification.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Differences between municipalities in educational level of population were still considerable in 2009</title>
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<description>By the end of 2009, a total of 2,955,000 persons in Finland had attained post-comprehensive level educational qualifications in upper secondary general school education, vocational education, polytechnic education or university education. Sixty-six per cent of the population aged 15 or over had attained an educational qualification. The share of population with educational qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. The share of population aged over 15 with educational qualifications was highest in Kauniainen at 79 per cent and lowest in Rautavaara at 47 per cent. The data in these statistics comply with the municipal division valid on 1 January 2010.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kauniainen has population with highest educational qualifications again in 2008</title>
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<description>By the end of 2008, a total of 2,903,000 persons in Finland had attained post-comprehensive level educational qualifications at upper secondary general schools, vocational education institutes, polytechnics or universities. Sixty-five per cent of the population aged 15 or over had attained an educational qualification. The share of population with educational qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. The share of population aged over 15 with educational qualifications was highest in Kauniainen at 79 per cent. The data in these statistics comply with the municipal division valid on 1 January 2009.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kauniainen has population with highest educational qualifications in 2007</title>
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<description>By the end of 2007, a total of 2,854,000 persons in Finland had attained post-comprehensive level educational qualifications at upper secondary general schools, vocational education institutes, polytechnics or universities. Sixty-five per cent of the population aged 15 or over had attained an educational qualification. The share of population with educational qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. The share of population aged over 15 with educational qualifications was highest in Kauniainen at 79 per cent. Persons having only completed the basic level of education, i.e. comprehensive school, middle school or elementary school, numbered 1,552,000.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Persons with educational qualifications numbered 2,806,000 in 2006</title>
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<description>At the end of 2006, a total of 2,806,000 persons, or 64 per cent of the population aged 15 or over, in Finland held post-comprehensive level educational qualifications from upper secondary general schools, vocational education institutes, polytechnics or universities. The share of population with such qualifications increased by two per cent from the year before. Persons having only completed the basic level of education, i.e. comprehensive school, middle school or elementary school, numbered 1,570,000.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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