Percentage of enterprises providing continuing vocational training (CVT) by size class (1997-1998)

Description

The Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS) collects information on enterprises’ investment in the continuing vocational training of their staff. Continuing vocational training (CVT) refers to education or training measures or activities which are financed in total or at least partly by the enterprise (directly or indirectly). Part financing could include the use of work-time for the training activity as well as financing of training equipment. Information available from the CVTS is grouped around the following topics:

• Training/non-training enterprises
• Participation in continuing vocational training
• Planning and assessment of continuing vocational training
• Costs of continuing vocational training courses
• Time spent on continuing vocational training courses

Four waves of the CVTS have been carried out by now:

• CVTS 1 – reference year 1993
• CVTS 2 – reference year 1999
• CVTS 3 – reference year 2005
• CVTS 4 – reference year 2010

In the domain "Participation in education and training (educ_part)", the folder "Continuing vocational training in enterprises (trng_cvts)" presents data for 2010 and 2005 which are comparable between the two waves.

2005 data which are not comparable with 2010 data are shown in the folder "Continuing vocational training in enterprises - reference year 2005 (trng_cvts3)" and 1999 data are available in the folder "Continuing vocational training in enterprises - reference year 1999 (trng_cvts2)". Both folders can be found in the domain "Past series (trng_h)".

The first survey (CVTS 1) was carried out in the then 12 Member States of the European Union. CVTS 1 was of pioneering nature and due to lack of comparability with the following waves data are not available in Eurostat's online database but main results are available here. The next CVTS is due for reference year 2015; results are expected to become available in the second half of 2017.