Table 2.

Qualifications of the workforce in five European countries

Level of qualification	Percentage of workforce
	Britain*	Netherlands†	Germany‡	France*	Switzerland§
University degrees	10	8	11	7	11
Higher technician diplomas	7	19	7	7	9
Craft/lower technical diplomas	20	38	56	33	57
No vocational qualifications	63	35	26	53	23
Total	100	100	100	100	100

Data taken from ref. 25. Data shown are from the following years: ∗, 1988; †, 1989; ‡, 1987; and §, 1991.