Exploring the Other: Analysing Programme Formations, Recruitment Patterns, and Gender in Swedish Upper Secondary School

Figures & data

Figure 1. Field of investigation.

Figure 2. The recruitment matrix.

Table 1. The recruitment matrix, by gender: frequencies and percentages.

Cohort	1991			1999			2005			2012
	N	% of matrix	% female	N	% of matrix	% female	N	% of matrix	% female	N	% of matrix	% female
Academic preparatory fields
Natural Sciences, Technology	18,087	22	33	19,827	23	40	19,675	19	31	21,513	22	39
Humanities, Social, Economics	26,815	33	65	26,545	31	62	29,084	28	61	30,828	32	60
Vocational fields
Natural Sciences, Technology	18,537	23	17	15,942	19	18	24,738	24	22	25,106	26	30
Humanities, Social, Economics	17,741	22	75	23,782	28	63	30,358	29	68	19,718	20	68
Total	81,180	100		86,096	100		103,855	100		111,372	100

Table 2. Inside the academic preparatory Humanities, Social and Economic education-field, by gender: frequencies and percentages.

Cohort	1991^a			1999			2005			2012
	N	% of total	% female	N	% of total	% female	N	% of total	% female	N	% of total	% female
Academic HSE				Social Sciences programme
Social Sciences	11,366	43	69	12,070	46	66	12,674	44	63	20,395	66	63
Social studies				11,535	44	66	11,995	41	62	9,136	30	58
Media^b				535	2	64	544	2	69	2,789	9	70
Behavioural Sciences							135	0.5	81	8,470	28	66
Economics	11,850	44	56	9,601	36	50	7,652	26	55	9,365	30	50
Economics spec.				9,221	35	51	7,373	25	55	7,208	23	47
Law							157	0.5	59	2,157	7	63
Enterprise				380	1	40	122	0.4	50
Humanities	3599	13	85	2,485	9	88	2,802	10	80	1,053***	3	82
Language							1,360	5	87	(630)		(84)
Culture							1,442	5	75	(343)		(78)
Specially Designed				1,224	5	56	4,585	16	57
“New options”
International spec.				981	4	76	516	2	68
Physical Education				83	0.3	35	753	3	33
Uncategorised				101	0.4	66	102	0.4	61	15	0.0	-
Total	26,815	100	65	26,545	100	62	29,084	100	61	30,828	100	59.5

^a Year one for birth cohort 1975.

^b Media is included in the vocational HSE category only in the 1991 cohort. In 1999 and 2005 it is both a programme of its own, included in the vocational HSE category, and as a specific option within the Social Sciences. In 2012 it is only an option within the Social Sciences.