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003 -- Foreign-language speaking and foreign students in post-comprehensive education leading to a qualification by location of education and sector of education in 2004 to 2016

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The students and qualifications of educational institutions draws an overall picture of
the students and attained qualifications in education leading to a qualification or degree.
All post-comprehensive educational sectors (upper secondary general, vocational, polytechnic,
university) are covered by these statistics with harmonised concepts and classifications. Description of statistics
Concepts and definitions

Area

The location of education is based on the location municipality of education (upper secondary school students, vocational education in educational institutions, polytechnic and university education) or the location municipality of the educational institution (comprehensive school education, adult basic education and matriculation examinations) or the location municipality of the education provider (vocational apprenticeship training).

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Students total

Military education is included in the figures starting from 2010.

Foreign students

Foreign students are students whose nationality is other than Finnish.

Foreign speaking students

Foreign-language speaking students are students whose native language is not Finnish, Swedish or Sami.