1990 POPULATION CENSUS Detailed data based on a 2 per cent representative sample (1992)

I. REVIEW OF THE DATA - A/ Main characteristics of the population

The majority of women, having terminated the generál school, continue to learn in grammar schools or in such specialized secondary schools which give qualifications in the traditional female professions, while men continue to learn in apprentice schools in a greater proportion than women. Of females aged 18-19 years, 38 per cent have a secondary school-leaving certificate whereas the respective proportion of males is only 23 per cent. As a result of this process, the difference in the secondary educational level to the benefit of the males has already equalized: by now, 30 per cent of both the 18 year old and older males and females have a secondary school-leaving certificate, as against the 18 and 13 per cent, respectively, in 1970. 13. The population aged 18 and over having at least the educational attainment of completed secondary school Year Both sexes Male Female Both sexes Male Female Year number (1000 persons) in percentage of the respective age-group 1930 275 212 63 4.7 7.6 2.1 1941 266 215 51 4.2 7.0 1.6 1949 356 245 111 5.5 8.1 3.3 1960 615 382 234 8.8 11.6 6.3 1970 1177 640 537 15.5 17.8 13.5 1980 1866 925 942 23.4 24.4 22.4 1990 2310 1068 1241 30.1 29.6 30.5 The number of persons having completed a third-level school is by 38 per cent higher than in 1980. At present, 9 per cent of the 25 year old and older population have third-level education. The value of this indicator is over 10 per cent in all age-groups under 50 years, among the more aged the respective proportion decreases gradually and among the 75 year old and older persons it is already only 3 per cent. Of the 25 year old and older population, each ninth male and each thirteenth female have third level education. While among the males under 65 years the share of those having completed a third-level school is over 10 per cent in all age-groups, among the females a similar proportion can be observed only in the 44 year old and younger age-groups. Among those aged 25-34 years, females have third-level education in a greater proportion (15 per cent) than males (11 per cent). 7 per cent of the 70 year old and older men and scarcely more than 1 per cent of the women of this age have third-level education, the latter almost exclusively in education-related professions. 14. The population aged 25 and over having completed third-level education, by sex Year Both sexes Male Female Both sexes Male Female Year number (1000 persons) in percentage of the respective age group 1930 81 73 8 1.8 3.3 0.3 1941 85 74 11 1.6 2.8 0.4 1949 91 76 15 1.7 3.1 0.5 1960 163 127 36 2.7 4.5 1.1 1970 273 192 81 4.2 6.4 2.3 1980 448 278 170 6.5 8.6 4.6 1990 636 355 281 9.4 11.4 7.8 12