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Education
Pupils in folk high schools and in upper secondary education, by sex and type
of school. 1 October 2001
Type of school Pupils, total Percentage females
Pupils, total 215 149 48.9
Pupils under the Upper Secondary Education Act 163 829 51.0
Of which
General areas of studies 92 938 53.8
Vocational areas of studies1 68203 49.0
Technical vocational schools 2 688 4.0
Folk high schools 5710 63.7
Apprentices 29 325 30.7
Labour market programmes 6227 53.2
Other upper secondary programmes 10058 56.9
1Technical vocational school pupils are not included in vocational areas of study.
Source: Education statistics, upper secondary education, Statistics Norway More information: http://www.ssb.no/utelstud_ers
http://ww.ssb.no/utvgs_eril and http;//wsw.ssb.no/utlaerling_ersf
1 87 Pupils going from upper secondary s chool, by area of study. 2001. Per cent
Area of study spring 2001
Total
Apprenticeship
Folk high
schools
In education 1 October 2001
upper Other
secondary secondary
schools education
Colleges universities
Not in
education
1 October
Total 61 995 0.9 4.8 7.0 2.5 9.6 6.7 68.5
General and business studies 35 129 1.1 6.5 6.2 3.0 15.0 10.5 57.7
Music, dance and drama 1 221 0.1 21.6 2.1 5.4 10.3 14.6 45.9
Sports and physical education . 1 849 0.1 6.7 4.3 5.9 10.7 6.5 65.8
Health and social studies 6 239 0.2 0.4 11.5 0.7 1.1 0.1 85.9
Agriculture, fishing and forestry. 1 250 1.5 2.9 19.8 1.0 5.6 1.5 67.7
Arts, craft and design 3 149 0.9 6.7 8.3 4.8 4.9 3.5 70.9
Hotel and foodprocessing trades 1 773 2.1 0.5 7.0 0.5 1.2 88.7
Building and construction trades 2 225 0.5 0.2 2.9 0.5 0.3 0.1 95.6
Technical building 802 0.5 0.5 6.1 1.1 0.2 0.2 91.3
Electrical trades 2 955 1.4 0.3 9.9 1.0 1.1 0.2 86.1
Engineering and mechanical trades 4774 0.9 0.1 5.4 0.6 0.3 0.1 92.5
Chemical and processing trades. 248 9.3 0.4 1.2 0.8 88.3
Woodworking trades 381 0.3 2.6 0.5 0.8 0.8 95.0
pupils who have completed three-year upper secondary education and vocational examinations. 2lncludes labour market courses
and other upper secondary education.
Source: Education statistics, pupils and students, Statistics Norway. More information: http://www.ssb.no/utelstud_en/
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