Human resources of science and technology

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Employment rate of highly educated people is high
21 Mar 2013
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.

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Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.