One in five students in Finland say they are short of money, according to a survey conducted for the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
The Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey (Finnish acronym KOTT) found that around 19 percent of people interviewed said they were concerned about getting by, up from 13 percent in the last KOTT survey conducted in 2021.
Around one in four students said they feared running out of food due to lack of funds, and around a fifth said they had cut down on medication purchases due to their financial situation.
Concerns about financial issues have increased among both university and vocational school students, but are clearly more prevalent among those attending vocational universities of applied sciences.
Some 24 percent of those at a university of applied sciences said they were short of money while the equivalent figure for university students was 15 percent.
The survey was conducted in March and April this year, with some 3,600 students aged 18-34 interviewed.
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