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Thu, 07 Nov, 2013 12:00:50 AM Salespersons, constructors, restaurant services are major occupations FTimes Report, November 7  Source - Statistics Finland Official data have shown that most of the foreign origin nationals residing in Finland earn a living by working as cleaners in offices.
According to data from Statistics Finland, some 8,400 people were involved with the occupation in 2011.
Other typical occupations include salespersons, building constructors, restaurant services supervisors and shift managers, said a press release of the institute.
In 2011, there was a total of 101,300 people with foreign origins were employed in Finland, which constituted around 4% of the total employment in the country.
Most of the office cleaners and building constructors with foreign origin were of Estonian origins, while most of the people working as salespersons were from Russia.
In case of the restaurant services supervisors and shit managers, the most common origin was Turkey, the statistics showed.
Approximately 84% of restaurant services supervisors and shift managers of foreign origin and 16% of the building constructors were entrepreneurs.
Around 11% employed people with foreign origins were self-employed. The highest proportion of self-employed people was found among the Turkish - 40.2%.
A highest number of 27,400 employed people with foreign backgrounds came from Russia and the countries that were parts of the former Soviet Union, followed by nearly 16,400 from Estonia, 3,300 from former Yugoslavia, 3,100 from China and 2,700 from Turkey.
Among the doctors of foreign origin, two out of five are either Russians or from former Soviet countries, according to the statistics.
Compared to the percentage of employed natives, more people with foreign origins worked as service and sales personnel, and workers in the craft and related trades and under the section of elementary occupations described in the Classification of Occupations.
Those with British origin worked as sales, marketing and development managers, while persons with Turkish origin worked as hotel and restaurant managers.
There were several professional level occupational groups among the ten most common groups for persons with German or British origin.
Common occupational groups for people from several other backgrounds were, for example, practical nurses, healthcare workers and domestic helps, as well as freight handlers and warehouse workers, said the release.
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