Energy programme leads to strong position on labour market

Those who studied the energy programme established themselves to the greatest extent on the labour market. Three years after upper secondary school, 70 percent of the women and 83 percent of the men were established.

The lowest establishment was among those who studied the arts programme, with 44 percent among the women and 50 percent among the men.

The proportion of students was higher among those who took the arts programme than those who took the energy programme. To obtain comparability among the programmes, the students have not been counted.

Women establish themselves on the labour market to a lesser extent than men

In 16 programmes the proportion that was established was higher among men. The only exception was the technical programme where 66 percent of both sexes were established.

Definitions and explanations

The population has been gathered from the register of pupils from the Swedish National Agency for Education during academic year 2004/05. The statistics are presented for the 17 national programmes that existed during the academic year 2004/05 Specially designed programmes and programmes at independent schools that were closely related to national ones are included in each national programme. The status of the persons is based on years, is register-based and classified into six different categories based on personal information from several different data sources. The six categories are: establishment on the labour market, uncertain position on the labour market, weak position on the labour market, outside of the labour market, university students and other students.