Personnel Reports provide information on the qualifications of teachers in vocational education and training and the take up of continuing professional development. The statistics are based on the collection of data per capita by Statistics Finland. 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.
Note! Some of the reports are subject to data protection measures. In that case numbers of 1-4 persons are shown as "1-4" and larger numbers are rounded to the nearest multiple of three. Percentages are calculated using the protected numbers.
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
Language of instruction
Level of education
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
Field of education - ISCED
Region
Type of function
Time used for continuing professional development and expert exchange
Age group
(%)
Field of education - ISCED
(%)
Region
(%)
Type of function
(%)
| |
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
