Table 2 Pupils and students, by type of school and age. 1 October 2003. Percentage of registered cohort

2	Pupils and students, by type of school and age. 1 October 2003. Percentage of registered cohort

Age at 31 December 2003	Type of school							Pupils in per cent of registered cohort

Age at 31 December 2003	Total	Primary and lower secondary schools¹	Upper secondary schools²	Folk high schools	Apprentices	University colleges	Universities	Both sexes	Males	Females

Total	1 059 191	614 279	200 780	6 052	28 321	130 148	79 611	-	-	-
6	60 902	60 902	.	.	.	.	.	99.4	99.2	99.5
7	62 317	62 317	.	.	.	.	.	99.5	99.3	99.7
8	61 649	61 649	.	.	.	.	.	99.4	99.0	99.7
9	61 331	61 331	.	.	.	.	.	99.2	99.1	99.3
10	61 166	61 166	.	.	.	.	.	99.5	99.4	99.5
11	62 194	62 194	.	.	.	.	.	99.6	99.5	99.7
12	62 786	62 786	.	.	.	.	.	99.4	99.2	99.6
13	62 216	62 216	.	.	.	.	.	98.4	98.1	98.7
14	60 858	60 854	4	-	-	-	-	99.0	98.6	99.4
15	59 369	58 864	505	-	-	-	-	99.4	98.8	100.1
16	53 495	.	53 260	200	24	9	2	94.6	94.0	95.2
17	51 348	.	50 789	322	232	5	-	92.8	92.8	92.9
18	46 542	.	39 317	460	6 555	102	108	85.9	84.0	87.9
19	29 389	.	10 112	3 437	8 664	3 944	3 232	54.8	51.1	58.7
20	26 852	.	6 013	727	4 643	8 942	6 527	50.2	45.9	54.6
21	25 440	.	4 408	283	2 021	11 231	7 497	46.5	41.2	52.0
22	23 469	.	3 176	164	1 252	11 665	7 212	43.2	38.3	48.2
23	21 352	.	2 596	105	853	10 332	7 466	38.7	36.1	41.5
24	18 180	.	2 075	66	633	8 423	6 983	32.6	31.1	34.1
25	15 145	.	1 727	35	466	6 555	6 362	27.0	26.2	27.7
26	12 544	.	1 497	35	415	5 226	5 371	22.5	21.3	23.7
27	10 435	.	1 391	30	321	4 352	4 341	17.9	16.8	19.0
28	9 213	.	1 421	19	287	3 888	3 598	15.0	13.8	16.3
29	7 899	.	1 321	8	209	3 595	2 766	12.2	10.9	13.5
30 -	93 100	.	21 168	161	1 746	51 879	18 146	-	-	-

¹	Age groups are founded on the pupils' year level. Pupils in separate classes for language minorities and pupils with special educational needs are not included.
²	The pupils in upper secondary schools consist of pupils under the Education Act, students in technical vocational schools, participants in employment training, pupils of other upper secondary education and participants in preparatory course for college of engineering.