In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, "Admitted" refers to the following groups: Students beginning general upper secondary school, referring to students registered with a school during the statistical year.New students in vocational upper secondary education and training, referring to students registered with the institution between 1 January and 20 September. New students in preparatory training for competence-based qualifications, referring to students registered with the institution between 1 January and 31 December. New students in apprenticeship training, referring to students who had signed the apprenticeship contract between 1 January and 31 December. Students entering polytechnic education, referring to students who registered for the first time for degree programmes leading to a polytechnic degree and polytechnic master´s degree and were registered as being present at the institution during the statistical year. Students who entered university education, referring to students who registered for the first time for degree programmes leading to a Bachelor's or Master's degree and were registered as present at the university during the statistical year.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, “New students” refers to the following groups: New students in general upper secondary education, referring to students on 20 September of the statistical year who had registered with the institution between 1 January and 20 September of the statistical year. New students in vocational education and training, referring to students who had registered for a programme at the institution or signed an apprenticeship contract during the statistical year. New students in curriculum-based vocational upper secondary education and training, referring to students registered with the institution between 1 January and 20 September. New students in preparatory training for competence-based qualifications, referring to students registered with the institution between 1 January and 31 December. New students in apprenticeship training, referring to students who had signed the apprenticeship contract between 1 January and 31 December. New students in polytechnic education (both polytechnic degrees and polytechnic Master's degrees), referring to students on 20 September of the statistical year who had registered with the institution for the first time between 1 January and 20 September as being present or absent in their degree programme. New students in university education, referring to students pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degrees on 20 September of the statistical year who had registered for the first time between 1 January and 20 September as being present or absent at the university.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal “Qualifications” refers to the following groups: Basic education qualifications, referring to persons receiving the basic education certificate after completing grade 9 and persons completing the basic education syllabus by a special examination. General upper secondary school qualifications, referring to matriculation examinations, international baccalaureates (IB and Reifeprüfung) and the Gymnasieexamen examinations completed during the statistical year. Vocational education and training qualifications, referring to the vocational upper secondary qualifications, further vocational qualifications and specialist vocational qualifications completed during the statistical year. Polytechnic qualifications, referring to polytechnic degrees and polytechnic Master's degrees completed during the calendar year (statistical year). University qualifications, referring to Bachelor's and Master's degrees, licentiate degrees, doctoral degrees, Specialist Degree in Medicine, Specialist Degree in Dentistry and Specialist Degree in Veterinary completed during the calendar year (statistical year).

In Vipunen, age group refers to a group to which a person belongs based on his or her age during the statistical year.
In statistics, people are usually divided into age groups by 5- or 1-year intervals (for example, persons aged 0-4, 5-9 or 10-14 or persons aged 0, 1, 2 or 3).

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, AVI area of the education provider refers to the AVI area where the official address of the education provider is located.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal defines the AVI area as the operating area of the Regional State Administrative Agency governing the home municipality where the person lives at the end of the year, as provided under the Municipality of Residence Act (201/1994; kotikuntalaki).
The AVI areas (the operating areas of the Regional State Administrative Agencies) correspond to the Finnish regions. The Agencies foster regional parity by executing legislative implementation, steering and supervision functions in the regions.

Education subject to the laws, decrees and decisions prepared for the Government and Parliament by the provincial government of Åland or a ministry other than the Ministry of Education and Culture, and to the decisions, regulations and guidance issued by the provincial government of Åland or a ministry other than the Ministry of Education and Culture. Examples of education under another administrative sector include education provided by the Police College of Finland, the National Defence College and Åland Polytechnic. Statistics published in the Vipunen Reporting Portal exclude higher education that falls under the administrative sectors other than education administration. See also education under the education administration.

An educational institution refers to an administrative unit with a principal or other head, which has teachers and other personnel in its service (role of employers), and which is liable to keep books and compile other documentation, in which students are registered, whose
activities are regulated by a legal act or decree, which follows a national curriculum, and which is financed and controlled by a public authority. An educational institution does not refer to a school building or facility. A new educational institution is established, an educational institution is abolished or merged with another educational institution at the decision of the organiser of education (maintaining organisation of the educational institution) or a public authority.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, AVI area of education refers to the AVI area of the municipality where the education in question is or has been primarily pursued.
The ELY area of education may differ from the ELY area of the education provider or institution. ELY areas (the operating areas of the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment) correspond to the Finnish regions or regional combinations. ELY Centres are responsible for the central government implementation and development tasks that were formerly under the Employment and Economic Development Centres, Regional Environmental Centres, Road Districts and State Provincial Offices.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, ELY area of the institution refers to the ELY area where the official address of the educational institution is located. The ELY area of the institution may differ from the ELY area of the education provider or education.

In Vipunen, EU country refers to the 27 Member States of the European Union. The variable values are "Yes" and "No".

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, type of education further specifies the data on levels of education by distinguishing between youth and adult general upper secondary education (see youth/adult general upper secondary education), youth and adult polytechnic education, curriculum-based vocational upper secondary qualification, competence-based vocational upper secondary qualification, further vocational qualification and specialist vocational qualification (see method of vocational education), and by separating the above-mentioned vocational qualifications into institution-based and apprenticeship-based (see form of vocational education).

The Vipunen Reporting Portal variable values are "man", "woman", "not defined" and "not known".

Language in which the instruction as part of education is primarily given.

In educational institutions, the language of instruction is based on a decision made by the authorities but institutions can provide instruction in other languages in addition to the one specified in the decision. In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, educational institutions are divided into the following groups by language of instruction: 1) Finnish, 2) Swedish, 3) Finnish/Swedish, 4) English, 5) Sámi and 9) Other. If an educational institution provides education in Finnish and Swedish, the language of instruction will be "Finnish/Swedish".

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, the concept of main type of activity describes the nature of a person's economic activity. The population is generally divided into people in the labour force (unemployed and unemployed) and those outside the labour force. These categories can be further divided into subgroups. The Vipunen Reporting Portal applies the following classification: "employed", "employed student", "student", "unemployed", "conscripts, conscientious objectors", "pensioners" (incl. persons receiving unemployment pension), "other or not known" and "emigrated". The last category is not part of the actual classification of main type of activity.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal applies a number of classifications of different level of accuracy, for example a two-letter code (ISO 639) or a narrower classification of "Finnish" (incl. Sámi), "Swedish", "Other language" and "Not known".

The Vipunen Reporting Portal defines the municipality of residence as a person's home municipality where the person lives at the end of the year, as provided under the Municipality of Residence Act (201/1994; kotikuntalaki).
Municipal borders are based on administrative territorial division. According to the principle of local self-government, a municipality has the right to manage the tasks it assumes for itself and those prescribed for it by law.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, ELY area of the institution refers to the ELY area where the official address of the educational institution is located. The municipality of the institution may differ from the municipality of the education provider or education.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal applies a number of classifications of different level of accuracy, for example the entire three-digit ISO 639, the same classification for the most common languages used in Finland and, as the broadest grouping, "Finnish" and "Others" (non-Finnish).
If a person has more than one nationality, Finnish is prioritised in the Vipunen Reporting Portal.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, municipality of education refers to the municipality where education is or has primarily been pursued. The region of education may differ from the region of the education provider or institution.
Finland is divided into regions for the development of the areas and for the planning of their use. A region is an area in which the municipalities form an operationally and economically functional whole for the development of the area.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, AVI area of the education provider refers to the AVI area where the official address of the education provider is located. The municipality of the education provider may differ from the municipality of the educational institution or education. Finland is divided into regions for the development of the areas and for the planning of their use. A region is an area in which the municipalities form an operationally and economically functional whole for the development of the area.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal refers to the following sectors of education: pre-primary and basic education, comprehensive school education, general upper secondary education, vocational education and training, polytechnic education and university education.

In the Vipunen Reporting Portal, specific type of degree or qualification further specifies the data on levels of education by distinguishing between youth and adult general upper secondary education, youth and adult polytechnic education, vocational upper secondary qualification, competence-based vocational upper secondary qualification, further vocational qualification and specialist vocational qualification.

Status in employment describes the position of the employed in the labour market. The Vipunen Reporting Portal classifies employed persons into wage and salary earners and entrepreneurs. The category of entrepreneurs also comprises family members who work in the enterprise but are not classified as wage and salary earners. In Vipunen, status in employment data is based on a person's pension insurance and the amount of wages and salary or entrepreneurial income.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal includes the following types of education provided by polytechnics youth education: young people's education leading to a polytechnic degree, adult education leading to a polytechnic degree, vocational teacher education, specialisation studies, and education leading to a polytechnic Master's degree.

The Vipunen Reporting Portal classifies vocational upper secondary education and training and further vocational education and training leading to a vocational qualification according to the type of qualification as follows: education leading to/preparing for a vocational upper secondary qualification, education preparing for a further vocational qualification, and education preparing for specialist vocational qualification. Qualifications attained in vocational upper secondary education and training are vocational upper secondary qualifications based on the basic education syllabus. The objective of vocational upper secondary education and training is to provide students with broad basic vocational skills and specialist competences in accordance with their study programme. Education preparing students for further and specialist vocational qualifications refers to vocational adult education and training that always leads to competence-based qualifications. However, further and specialist vocational qualifications can be attained without attending preparatory training. A further vocational qualification constitutes a demonstration of the vocational skills required from a professional employee in the field in question. The specialist vocational qualification bears testimony to the holder’s ability to complete the most demanding work tasks in the field.

Calendar year during which the qualification has been attained.