Level of education (primary, secondary or tertiary education) of young (15–26 y. o.) people in labour market.
Below upper secondary education 0–2
less than primary education 0, primary education 1
basic education 2A
vocational education for youngsters without basic education 2C
Upper secondary education 3
general secondary education 3A
vocational secondary education based on basic education 3B
professional secondary education based on basic education 3A
vocational training based on basic education 3C
Post-secondary non-tertiary education 4
vocational secondary education based on secondary education 4B
Tertiary education 5–6
academic higher education (Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree) 5A
professional higher education (professional higher education, diploma study, vocational higher education) 5B
professional secondary education based on secondary education 5B
Doctor’al degree 6
Unit: number
Disaggregated by: year, age group, labour status, level of education
Source: Statistics Estonia, Estonian Labour Force Survey (LFS)
Note: The data for 2000–2012 has been revised based on corrected population numbers from Estonian Office of Statistics. More information regarding methodology of labour force survey calculations is available here: http://www.stat.ee/76254 (Estonian language)
Year | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Labour status | Level of education (labour market) | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |||||||||
Labour force | Total | 105000 | 102000 | 104100 | 109300 | 104400 | 99700 | 102000 | 99400 | 90500 | 88900 | |||||||||
Labour force | Primary education or lower | 20800 | 22500 | 25300 | 24400 | 22500 | 19100 | 18900 | 19500 | 16500 | 15900 | |||||||||
Labour force | Secondary education, post-secondary level and tertiary education | 58800 | 57400 | 57600 | 65600 | 62500 | 60900 | 61700 | 57700 | 51100 | 51500 | |||||||||
Labour force | Higher education | 25400 | 22100 | 21200 | 19300 | 19300 | 19700 | 21400 | 22300 | 23000 | 21500 | |||||||||
employed | Total | 91600 | 91800 | 94800 | 98500 | 79100 | 71700 | 82900 | 82100 | 76100 | 76500 | |||||||||
employed | Primary education or lower | 16100 | 18800 | 20800 | 20300 | 12900 | 10400 | 13800 | 13300 | 12800 | 12600 | |||||||||
employed | Secondary education, post-secondary level and tertiary education | 51200 | 51700 | 53600 | 59800 | 48300 | 44100 | 50300 | 48100 | 42900 | 44600 | |||||||||
employed | Higher education | 24400 | 21300 | 20400 | 18500 | 17900 | 17300 | 18800 | 20600 | 20400 | 19300 | |||||||||
unemployed | Total | 13400 | 10300 | 9300 | 10700 | 25200 | 27900 | 19100 | 17400 | 14400 | 12400 | |||||||||
unemployed | Primary education or lower | 4800 | 3800 | 4500 | 4200 | 9600 | 8700 | 5100 | 6100 | 3700 | 3300 | |||||||||
unemployed | Secondary education, post-secondary level and tertiary education | 7600 | 5700 | 4000 | 5800 | 14200 | 16800 | 11400 | 9500 | 8200 | 6900 | |||||||||
unemployed | Higher education | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1400 | 2400 | 2600 | 1700 | 2600 | 2200 | |||||||||
Inactive | Total | 137600 | 135100 | 128900 | 122700 | 121700 | 119400 | 111300 | 106400 | 102100 | 97300 | |||||||||
Inactive | Primary education or lower | 89800 | 90200 | 85200 | 82800 | 76500 | 72100 | 64900 | 62000 | 59900 | 56500 | |||||||||
Inactive | Secondary education, post-secondary level and tertiary education | 43100 | 40700 | 39300 | 34500 | 39700 | 40600 | 40400 | 38100 | 37100 | 36100 | |||||||||
Inactive | Higher education | 4700 | 4300 | 4400 | 5300 | 5500 | 6700 | 5900 | 6200 | 5000 | 4700 | |||||||||
Labour force and inactive total | Total | 242600 | 237100 | 233000 | 232000 | 226100 | 219000 | 213300 | 205800 | 192600 | 186200 | |||||||||
Labour force and inactive total | Primary education or lower | 110700 | 112700 | 110500 | 107300 | 99100 | 91100 | 83800 | 81500 | 76400 | 72500 | |||||||||
Labour force and inactive total | Secondary education, post-secondary level and tertiary education | 101800 | 98000 | 97000 | 100100 | 102300 | 101500 | 102100 | 95800 | 88200 | 87600 | |||||||||
Labour force and inactive total | Higher education | 30100 | 26400 | 25600 | 24600 | 24800 | 26400 | 27400 | 28500 | 28000 | 26200 |