Personnel reports provide information on the qualifications of teachers providing basic education and pre-primary education in comprehensive schools and take up of continuing professional development. The statistics are based on the collection of data per capita by Statistics Finland. Data on teachers is collected every two or three years. Data is available from the year 2010 onwards. Survey response rates by educational structure are shown in the table below. When examining the statistics, response rates should be taken into consideration.
If more detailed information on the number of teachers is required, find the number of employed teachers here: Population, educational and vocational structures > Occupations and education of the population in employment (E.g. “Employed by occupational group and age group” -report). In this employment statistic a profession has been defined for all those employed annually since 2004 and it depicts the situation of the last week of the year.
Formal teaching qualification
The reports provide information on the number of teachers and the
percentage of formally qualified teachers.
Age group
Field most taught by the teacher
Region
Type of function
Continuing professional development
The reports provide information on the take up of further and continuing education among teachers, and the time as man-days spent on different forms of continuing education. A man-day refers to an input of at least six hours. For example, two eight-hour days are calculated as two days of continuing education, while two work inputs of at least three hours each are calculated as one day of continuing education. Events of less than three hours were not included in these statistics.
Take up of continuing professional development and expert exchange
Age group
Region
Type of function
Time used for continuing professional development and expert exchange
Age group
(%)
Region
(%)
Type of function
(%)
Size of teaching groups
The reports provide information on the average class sizes of class teachers and pre-primary school teachers, and the teachers' own classes by the size of the teaching group.
Average size of class teachers' own classes
Grade
Language of instruction
Region
Size of the education provider
Size of class teachers' own classes
Grade (%)
Language of instruction
(%)
Region (%)
| |
2010 |
2013 |
2016 |
2019 |
| Basic education |
91,0 % |
88,0 % |
66,3 % |
49,2 % |
General upper secondary education
|
97,0 % |
94,0 % |
65,5 % |
53,5 % |
Vocational education and training
|
86,2 % |
90,0 % |
66,2 % |
45,8 % |
Liberal (non-formal) education
|
93,0 % |
90,0 % |
62,0 % |
48,1 % |
Survey response rates by educational structure
