Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2017-2018

Entrerpreneurs that are persons in newly established private and public limited companies, by education, age and sex¹
	2017			2018²
	Number of entrepreneurs	Share of men	Share of women	Number of entrepreneurs	Share of men	Share of women
¹Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education more than 4 years
²Preliminary figures
³Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more than 4 years
⁴Other include persons with no completed education and those who haven't registrated any information about education.
Level of education
All educational levels	32 388	100.0	100.0	29 852	100.0	100.0
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)	4 133	13.2	10.8	3 900	13.5	11.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)	12 888	42.0	30.9	11 692	41.7	29.0
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)¹	8 722	25.0	34.6	7 880	24.2	35.2
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)³	5 016	14.7	18.5	4 660	14.8	18.8
Other⁴	1 629	5.0	5.1	1 720	5.8	5.7

Age groups
All ages	32 388	100.0	100.0	29 852	100.0	100.0
16-24 years	1 219	3.8	3.5	1 156	4.0	3.4
25-44 years	16 904	51.3	55.6	15 406	51.0	53.9
45-66 years	13 185	41.3	38.5	12 247	41.2	40.5
67 years or older	1 080	3.6	2.4	1 043	3.8	2.2
Unknown age	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0

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