Hours spent in CVT courses by type of CVT agreement and NACE Rev. 1.1 activity - hours per person employed in all enterprises

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: Provision of CVT courses and other forms of CVT (training/non-training enterprises)CVT strategiesParticipants in CVT coursesCosts of CVT coursesTime spent in CVT coursesCharacteristics of CVT coursesAssessment of CVT activities Since 2005, the CVTS also collects some information on initial vocational training (IVT). Five waves of the CVTS have been carried out by now: CVTS 1 – reference year 1993CVTS 2 – reference year 1999CVTS 3 – reference year 2005CVTS 4 – reference year 2010CVTS 5 – reference year 2015 In the domain "Participation in education and training (educ_part)", the folder "Continuing vocational training in enterprises (trng_cvt)" presents data for 2005, 2010 and 2015 which are comparable between the three waves. 1999 data are available in the folder "Continuing vocational training in enterprises - reference year 1999 (trng_cvts2)". This folder 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.