One fifth of adults studied for other than work-related reasons

One fifth of the population aged 18 to 64, or good 500,000 persons, took part in general or leisure-interest adult education in 2000. The proportion of the population participating in such studies has not changed much over the last twenty years. Two thirds of adult students were women. Every fourth of women and more than every tenth of men had attended such adult education. These figures do not include full-time students. Good one third of them participated in other than work-related adult education.

General education and leisure-oriented adult studies were focused on arts and skills. Over one quarter of all leisure-related courses were such studies, the proportion of physical education being one fifth of all. Languages accounted for over one tenth of other than work-related adult education.

Figure 8. Participation in other than work or occupation-related adult
                education and training in 1980, 1990, 1995 and 2000 by gender
                (population aged 18 to 64, excl. full-time students and conscripts)

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