Continuing Vocational Training Survey

Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)

The continuing vocational training survey release presents the results of the third Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS3), a survey of the enterprise training of their staff.

The survey covered all enterprises which had 3 or more employees in 2005 in the following sectors; industrial, construction, distribution, hotels & restaurants, transport, storage and communications, financial intermediation, business services, public administration and defence, education, health and other community, social and personal service activities.

The results for 2005 show that:

• Half of all enterprises engaged in some form of vocational training in 2005. 36% offered some form of training courses while 47% had some other form of training.

• An average of 1.7 days per employee was spent on training courses in 2005, 1.2 days on internal courses and 0.5 on external courses.

• 24% of time on courses was for environmental protection and health and safety reasons while only 5% was to correct perceived under-performance of staff.

• Total cost of training in 2005 was equivalent to 2.6% of total labour costs. This was broken down into 0.7% for the direct costs of training courses, 0.8% the cost of time spent on the training course and 1.1% the estimated costs of all the staff involved in training activity (excluding apprentices) in enterprises.

• The most common reason given by non-training enterprises for not providing training courses was that they were happy that the skills and competencies of their existing staff matched their jobs (83%). Only 11% of non-training enterprises were deterred by the cost of training and 17% by the workloads and/or limited available time.
• On a comparable basis, the cost of training courses rose from €364 million in 1999 to €851 million in 2005 while the cost per day of training rose from €251 per day to €604 over the same period.

The Continuing Vocational Training Survey release is available from:

Central Statistics Office, Information Section, Skehard Road, Cork

or

The Government Publications Sale Office, Sun Alliance House, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.

For further information contact

Paul Crowley, 021-453 5090 or

Anne Hickey, 021-453 5508

LoCall: 1890 313 414

Internet www.cso.ie
Email: nes@cso.ie

Central Statistics Office                                                                      20 December 2007

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