Vipunen - Education Statistics Finland

Vipunen is the education administration's reporting portal. The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish National Agency for Education are jointly responsible for its content. Vipunen's statistics are based on data and registers collected by Statistics Finland, the Ministry of Culture and Education and the Finnish National Agency for Education. 

You can use this service to access statistics and indicators for education in a number of educational sectors:

• placement of students after completion
• research conducted in higher education institutions
• the population's educational structure 
• the socio-economic background of students

Statistics Finland has collected student and degree data through education providers directly from educational institutions, the Koski database, the national data warehouse for higher education (VIRTA) and the matriculation examination register. 

The Finnish National Agency for Education collects from education providers the cost and operational data on which the central government transfer for primary and secondary education is based, with the exception of the cost data for municipalities’ pre-primary and basic education and general upper secondary education, which are collected by the State Treasury. The Ministry of Education and Culture collects data on the operations, personnel and economic activities of universities of applied sciences and universities.