Education in States and Nations: 1991

(ESN) Table 11a: Number of first-time entrants into full-time public and private higher education per 100 persons at the entry reference age, by sex and country: 1991

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                  Entry                                Sex
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Country             age  All students          Male       Female
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Australia            18          51.8          42.2         61.6
Austria              19          27.7          27.0         28.5
Belgium              18          48.4          45.2         51.7
Czechoslovakia       18          16.5          17.8         15.7
Denmark              19          38.0          32.9         43.5
Finland              19          62.2          53.8         70.8
France               18          44.4          39.9         49.0
Germany 1         18/19          42.6          49.3         39.4
Hungary              19          15.9          15.8         16.1
Ireland              18          33.8          34.2         33.4
Japan                18          53.1          51.8         54.5
Italy                19            **            **           **
Netherlands          19          35.7          37.6         33.6
New Zealand          18            **            **           **
Norway               19          36.7          31.7         42.0
Portugal             18          35.2          30.0         40.8
Spain                18            **            **           **
Sweden               19          47.1          42.7         51.9
Switzerland          20          26.9          30.7         22.9
Turkey               18          14.8          18.6         10.7
United Kingdom       18          27.7          28.3         27.0
United States 2      18          45.8          43.2         48.5
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**Not available.
1 Male and female figures apply to the West Germany only. The all students figure applies to Germany as a whole.
2 1990 data.

NOTE: Only students attending higher education institutions in their home country are counted among the new entrants. Thus, there is no distinction in the country-level data (as there is in the state-level data) between counting a new entrant at the location of the institution or the student's home. Both locations lie in the same country. See supplemental note to Indicator 11 for details on data provided by Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the supplemental notefor a discussion of the non-inclusion of proprietary schools, for a discussion of the calculation of full-time equivalent enrollments, for a discussion comparing U.S. entry-ratio data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the OECD's INES Project; and the supplemental note for a discussion of levels of education and the supplemental note for a discussion of enrollment reference groups and entry reference ages.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Education at a Glance, 1993, Table P15. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1993, Table 177. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population and Housing.

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Figure 11c Table 11b