Official Statistics of Finland

Upper secondary general school education

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Latest release:
Number of students in upper secondary general school continued to decrease
12 Jun 2012
According to Statistics Finland, a total of 109,000 students attended upper secondary general school education leading to qualification in 2011. The number of students continued to decrease and was 2.5 per cent lower than the year before. Fifty-seven per cent of the students in upper secondary general school education leading to a qualification were women. Upper secondary education was offered at 388 upper secondary schools and 45 other educational institutions.

Next release:
12 Jun 2013

Description: The statistics on upper secondary general school education contain data on the educational institutions providing upper secondary general education: upper secondary general schools, basic and upper secondary general level schools and folk high schools. The preliminary statistics by educational institution for the current autumn describe the total number of students on 20 September in the educational institutions providing upper secondary general education. The statistics on upper secondary general school pupils contain individual-based data at the reference point of time of 20 September on the pupils attending the full upper secondary general school syllabus. The statistics on matriculation examinations contain data on pupils having matriculated in a certain year, and separate data on passers of the international matriculation examinations of IB, Reifeprüfung and Gymnasieexamen. Data on the subject choices of upper secondary general school leavers are collected with a separate collection (see Subject choices of students).
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Upper secondary general school education [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-165X. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.5.2013].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/lop/index_en.html.

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