Victorian Government subsidised VET students by age bands

The Victorian Training Market Reports are an on-going series of reportsproduced by DEECD, with the aim of providing summaries of Victorian VocationalEducation and Training (VET) market performance and responsiveness to industryneeds. All VET providers who receive funding from the Victorian Governmentreport monthly to the Skills Victoria Training System (SVTS), which acceptsand validates the providers' training activity data for payment, monitoring,reporting and related purposes.  DEECD analyses the providers' reported datain its production of the Victorian Training Market Reports.The Reports summarise emerging trends in the Victorian training market andprovide a comparative overview of annual market changes.Key metrics in the Reports include training delivery by funding source,qualification level, training completions, employment status, higher needslearners and region.  The Reports also analyse the responsiveness of trainingdelivery to specific occupational needs, industry and regional profiles.All figures published in the Reports are generally rounded to the nearest 100.NB: The Victorian Training Market Reports are published quarterly. The data inthe first, second and third quarterly reports is considered preliminary andshould be treated as being indicative only.All data supplied to Data VIC refers to activity reported and accepted by theSVTS system (data upload) for the Fourth Quarterly Report 2012. This 2012annual collection dataset was open for reporting purposes over 16 January 2012to 15 January 2013. The collection was closed and finalised on 16 January 2013and then subsequently informed the final 2012 Victorian Training MarketReport.