Four in ten enterprises have only male employees

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Forty-five per cent of all enterprises as of 1 January 2015 had both male and female employees. Thirty-eight per cent of enterprises had only male employees and 17 per cent of enterprises had only female employees.

Enterprises by features of the employees

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In 63 per cent of all enterprises in construction, and transport and storage, all employees were male. Sixty per cent of all enterprises in other service activities and 44 per cent of all enterprises in health and social work activities had exclusively female employees.

Most of the enterprises had few employees; 79 per cent had fewer than ten persons employed.

Compulsory and upper secondary education most common

Almost half of all enterprises as of January 1 2015 had no employees with a higher education level than upper secondary school. In roughly 70 per cent of all enterprises in other service activities, transport and storage, as well as construction, the highest education level of all employees was either compulsory or upper secondary education. 

In 14 per cent of all enterprises, all employees were graduates. Thirty-nine per cent of all enterprises in professional, scientific and technical activities and 33 per cent of all enterprises in information and communication had only graduate employees.