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Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 of 3 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)
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Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 of 3 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)
02006R0198 — EN — 19.11.2014 — 002.001
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 198/2006 of 3 February 2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (OJ L 032 4.2.2006, p. 15) |
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 198/2006
of 3 February 2006
implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises
(Text with EEA relevance)
Article 1
This Regulation lays down measures to implement Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises.
Article 2
The first reference year for which the data are to be collected shall be the calendar year 2005.
Article 3
The specific variables to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) shall be as specified in Annex I.
Article 4
Sampling and precision requirements, the sample sizes needed to meet these requirements, and the detailed specifications of the NACE and size categories into which the results can be broken down shall be as specified in Annex II.
Article 5
Member States shall be responsible for data checking, error correction, imputation and weighting.
Imputation and weighting of variables shall follow the principles laid down in Annex III. Derogation from these principles shall be fully justified and reported in the quality report.
Article 6
Data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) by the means and in the format specified in Annex IV.
Article 7
Each Member State shall perform a quality evaluation of its data, to be presented in the form of a quality report. The quality report shall be prepared and presented to the Commission (Eurostat) in accordance with the format specified in Annex V.
Article 8
With a view to achieving a high level of harmonisation of the survey results across countries, the Commission (Eurostat) in close cooperation with Member States, shall propose methodological and practical recommendations and guidelines for the implementation of the survey in the form of a ‘European Union Manual’.
Article 9
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX I
Variables
Note to the table:
The values ‘core’ and ‘key’ in the column ‘variable group’ are explained in Annex III. The value ‘ID’ means that the variable is an ‘identification variable’ (no missing allowed). In the column ‘variable type’ the value ‘QL’ refers to ‘qualitative variable’ of type yes/no, ‘QM’ to ‘qualitative variable’ with multiple categories as described in the table and ‘QT’ refers to ‘quantitative variable’. CVT stands for continuing vocational training. IVT stands for initial vocational training. NACE refers to the classification of economic activity according to NACE Rev. 2.
1. Variables to be collected from all enterprises: sample characteristics
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
COUNTRY |
ID |
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Country code |
ENTERPR |
ID |
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Enterprise ID |
REFYEAR |
ID |
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Reference year |
WEIGHT |
ID |
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Weighting factor. Two decimal positions — use ‘.’ as decimal separator |
NACE_SP |
ID |
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Sampling plan economic activity category |
SIZE_SP |
ID |
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Sampling plan size group |
NSTRA_SP |
ID |
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Sampling plan — number of enterprises in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP, i.e. the population |
N_SP |
ID |
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Sampling plan — number of sampled enterprises from the sample-frame in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP |
SUB_SP |
ID |
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Sub-sample indicator, shows if enterprise belongs to sub-sample |
N_RESPST |
ID |
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Number of responding enterprises in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP |
N_EMPREG |
ID |
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Number of persons employed according to the register |
RESPONSE |
ID |
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Response indicator (sampling unit type) |
PROC |
ID |
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Data collection mode |
IDLANGUA |
ID |
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Language of data collection |
IDREGION |
ID |
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Region identification NUTS — level 1 |
EXTRA1 |
ID |
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Extra variable 1 (see Annex III) |
EXTRA2 |
ID |
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Extra variable 2 (see Annex III) |
EXTRA3 |
ID |
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Extra variable 3 (see Annex III) |
2. Variables to be collected from all enterprises: background data
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
A1 |
Core |
QM |
Actual NACE CODE |
A2tot |
Core |
QT |
Total number of persons employed on 31 December of the reference year |
A2m |
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QT |
Total number of males employed on 31 December of the reference year |
A2f |
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QT |
Total number of females employed on 31 December of the reference year |
A4 |
Key |
QT |
Total number of hours worked in the reference year by persons employed |
A5 |
Key |
QT |
Total labour costs (direct + indirect) of all persons employed in the reference year |
3. Variables to be collected from all enterprises: CVT strategies
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
A8 |
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QL |
Person or unit within the enterprise with responsibility for the organisation of CVT |
A9 |
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QM |
Assessment of future skill needs of the enterprise |
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Yes but not regularly (mainly linked to changes in personnel) |
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Yes, it is part of the overall planning process in the enterprise |
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No |
A10 |
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QM |
Reaction to future needs through |
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Continuing vocational training of current staff |
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Recruitment of new staff with the suitable qualifications, skills and competences |
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Recruitment of new staff combined with specific training |
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Internal reorganisation to better use existing skills and competences |
A12 |
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QM |
Skills and competences important in the next few years (3 most important) |
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General IT skills |
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IT professional skills |
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Management skills |
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Team working skills |
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Customer handling skills |
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Problem solving skills |
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Office administration skills |
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Foreign language skills |
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Technical, practical or job-specific skills |
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Oral or written communication skills |
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Numeracy and/or literacy skills |
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None of these |
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Do not know |
A13 |
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QL |
Planning of CVT in the enterprise leads to a written training plan or programme |
A14 |
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QL |
Annual training budget, which includes provision for CVT |
A15 |
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QL |
National, sector or other agreements between the social partners, which cover the provision of CVT |
A16a |
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QL |
Staff representatives/committees involved in the management process of CVT |
A16b |
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QM |
Aspects covered by staff representatives/committees |
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Objective setting of training |
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Establishing criteria for the selection of participants or specific target groups |
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Form/type of training (e.g. internal/external courses; other forms such as guided-on-the-job training) |
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Content of training |
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Budget for training |
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Selection of external training providers |
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Evaluation/assessment of training outcomes |
4. Variables to be collected from all enterprises: CVT characteristics
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
B1a |
Core |
QL |
Provision of internal CVT courses in the reference year |
B1b |
Core |
QL |
Provision of external CVT courses in the reference year |
B2a |
Core |
QL |
Provision of guided-on-the-job training in the reference year |
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QM |
Participation in guided-on-the-job training |
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Less than 10 % of all persons employed |
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From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed |
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50 % or more of all persons employed |
B2b |
Core |
QL |
Provision of job rotation, exchanges, secondments or study visits in the reference year |
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QM |
Participation in job rotation, exchanges, secondments or study visits |
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Less than 10 % of all persons employed |
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From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed |
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50 % or more of all persons employed |
B2c |
Core |
QL |
Participation in conferences/workshops in the reference year |
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QM |
Participation in conferences/workshops |
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Less than 10 % of all persons employed |
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From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed |
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50 % or more of all persons employed |
B2d |
Core |
QL |
Participation in learning or quality circles in the reference year |
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QM |
Participation in learning or quality circles |
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Less than 10 % of all persons employed |
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From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed |
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50 % or more of all persons employed |
B2e |
Core |
QL |
Planned training by self-directed learning/e-learning in the reference year |
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QM |
Participation in self-directed learning/e-learning |
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Less than 10 % of all persons employed |
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From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed |
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50 % or more of all persons employed |
B3 |
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QL |
Provision of CVT courses in the year before the reference year |
B4 |
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QL |
Provision of other forms of CVT in the year before the reference year |
B5a |
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QL |
Existence of CVT contributions in the reference year |
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QT |
Amount of CVT contributions (in euros) |
B5b |
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QL |
Existence of CVT receipts in the reference year |
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QT |
Amount of CVT receipts (in euros) |
B6 |
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QM |
Measures from which the enterprise benefits |
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Tax incentives (tax allowances, tax exemptions, tax credits, tax relief, tax deferrals) |
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Receipts from training funds (national, regional, sector) |
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EU subsidies (e.g. European Social Fund) |
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Government subsidies |
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Other sources |
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None of these |
Sections 5 and 6 shall be addressed to enterprises providing CVT courses in the reference year [(B1a or B1b) = yes].
Section 7 shall be addressed to all training enterprises in the reference year, i.e.:
Section 8 shall be addressed to non-training enterprises only.
5. Variables to be collected from enterprises which provided CVT courses: CVT participants, subjects and providers
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
C1tot |
Key |
QT |
Total number of participants in all CVT courses |
C2m |
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QT |
Number of CVT course participants — males |
C2f |
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QT |
Number of CVT course participants — females |
C3tot |
Key |
QT |
Paid working time (in hours) spent on all CVT courses |
C3i |
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QT |
Paid working time (in hours) for internal CVT courses |
C3e |
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QT |
Paid working time (in hours) for external CVT courses |
C4 |
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QT |
Share of training hours spent on obligatory courses for health and safety at work |
C5 |
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QM |
Subjects covered (3 most important) |
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General IT skills |
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IT professional skills |
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Management skills |
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Team working skills, |
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Customer handling skills |
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Problem solving skills |
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Office administration skills |
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Foreign language skills |
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Technical, practical or job-specific skills |
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Oral or written communication skills |
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Numeracy and/or literacy skills |
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None of these |
C6 |
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QM |
Providers (external CVT courses) (3 most important) |
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Schools, colleges, universities and other higher education institutions |
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Public training institutions (financed or guided by the government; e.g. adult education centres) |
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Private training companies |
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Private companies of which the main activity is not training |
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Employers' associations, chambers of commerce, sector bodies |
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Trade unions |
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Other training providers |
6. Variables to be collected from enterprises which provided CVT courses: CVT costs
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
C7a |
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QL |
Existence of fees or payments for courses |
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QT |
CVT course costs — fees and payments for courses for employees (in euros) |
C7b |
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QL |
Existence of travel or subsistence payments |
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QT |
CVT course costs — travel and subsistence payments (in euros) |
C7c |
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QL |
Existence of labour costs of internal trainers |
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QT |
CVT course costs — labour costs of internal trainers (in euros) |
C7d |
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QL |
Existence of costs of training centre, rooms or teaching materials |
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QT |
CVT course costs — training centre, rooms and teaching materials for CVT courses (in euros) |
C7sub |
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QL |
Existence of ‘CVT costs sub-total’ only (no sub-categories) |
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Key |
QT |
CVT costs sub-total (in euros) |
PAC |
Key |
QT |
Personal absence cost — to be calculated (PAC = C3tot × A5/A4 in euros) |
C7tot |
Key |
QT |
Total CVT costs — to be calculated (C7tot = C7sub + B5a – B5b in euros) |
7. Variables to be collected from enterprises which provided CVT courses or other forms of CVT: CVT quality, outcomes and difficulties
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
D2a |
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QM |
Assessment of the outcomes of CVT activities |
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Yes, for all activities |
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Yes, for some activities |
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No, proof of participation is sufficient |
D2b |
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QM |
Methods of assessment |
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Certification after written or practical test |
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Satisfaction survey amongst participants |
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Assessment of participants' behaviour or performance in relation to training objectives |
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Assessment/measurement of the impact of training on performance of relevant departments or the whole enterprise |
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Other |
D3 |
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QM |
Factors limiting CVT provision in the reference year |
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No limiting factors: level of training provided was appropriate to the needs of the enterprise |
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Recruitment of individuals with the required qualifications, skills and competences |
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Difficulties in assessing training needs in the enterprise |
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Lack of suitable offers of CVT courses in the market |
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High costs of CVT courses |
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Higher focus on IVT provision than on CVT |
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Major efforts in CVT realised in recent years |
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Limited time available for staff to participate in CVT |
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Other reasons |
8. Variables to be collected from non-training enterprises: reasons for non-provision of CVT activities
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
E1 |
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QM |
Reasons for not providing CVT in the reference year |
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The existing qualifications, skills and competences were appropriate to the current needs of the enterprise |
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Recruitment of individuals with the required qualifications, skills and competences was preferred |
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Difficulties in assessing training needs in the enterprise |
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Lack of suitable offers of CVT courses in the market |
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High costs of CVT courses |
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Higher focus on IVT provision than on CVT |
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Major efforts in CVT realised in recent years |
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No time available for staff to participate in CVT |
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Other reasons |
9. Variables to be collected from all enterprises: initial vocational training (IVT)
Variable name |
Variable group |
Variable type |
Variable description |
F1 |
Core |
QL |
IVT participants usually employed in the enterprise |
F2 |
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QM |
Reasons for providing IVT (if F1 = yes) |
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To qualify future employees according to the needs of the enterprise |
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To choose the best apprentices for future employment after completion of initial vocational training |
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To avoid possible mismatch with enterprise needs in case of external recruitment |
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To make use of the productive capacities of IVT participants already during their initial vocational training |
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Other reasons |
ANNEX II
Sample
1. Business registers referred to in Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 2 ) shall be taken as the main source of the sampling frame. A nationally representative stratified probability sample of enterprises shall be taken from this frame.
2. The sample shall be stratified by NACE Rev. 2 and size category according to the following minimum specifications:
3. A sample size shall be calculated to ensure a maximum half-length of 0,2 of the 95 % confidence interval for the estimated parameters, which are a proportion of ‘training enterprises’ (after allowance for the non-response rate in the sample) for each of the 60 stratified elements identified above (120 stratified elements for Member States with 50 million inhabitants or more).
4. The following formula may be used in determining the sample size:
Where:
rh |
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the anticipated response rate in the stratum cell, h |
c |
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maximum length of half the confidence interval |
teh |
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the anticipated proportion of training enterprises in the stratum cell, h |
Nh |
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the total number of enterprises (training and non-training) in the stratum cell, h |
ANNEX III
Imputation principles and record weighting
Member States shall take all appropriate measures to reduce item and unit non-response. Prior to imputation countries shall make all reasonable efforts to use other data sources.
Core variables, for which neither missing values shall be accepted nor imputation permitted, are:
Key variables, for which every effort should be made to avoid missing values and for which imputation is recommended, are:
Imputation for item non-response shall be recommended within the following general limits:
When a record contains less than 50 % of variables presented then this record shall normally be considered as a unit non-response.
For a single NACE Rev. 2/size cell imputations shall not be allowed if more than 50 % of the responding enterprises have missing data for more than 25 % of the quantitative variables.
For a single NACE Rev. 2/size cell, no imputation shall be performed on a quantitative variable if the proportion of responding enterprises for that particular variable is less than 50 %.
For a single NACE Rev. 2/size cell, no imputation shall be performed on a qualitative variable if the proportion of responding enterprises for that particular variable is less than 80 %.
Quantitative and qualitative variables are identified in Annex I.
Rules for imputation are provided in the manual referred to in Article 8.
Member States shall calculate and transmit a weighting factor — to be applied to each data record — together with the auxiliary variables, which may have been used in the calculation of this weighting factor. These auxiliary variables should be recorded as the variables EXTRA1, EXTRA2, EXTRA3 as necessary. The methodology adopted for establishing the weighting factors shall be detailed in the quality report.
ANNEX IV
Data file format and transmission rules
Data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) in electronic form by means of a secure data transmission software application (STADIUM/EDAMIS) to be made available by the Commission (Eurostat).
Countries shall transmit two checked data sets to ESTAT:
the data set prior to imputation with preliminary checks;
the fully checked data set after imputation.
Both data sets shall contain the variables identified in Annex 1.
Both files shall be presented in comma separated variable (.csv) format. The first record in each file shall be a header record containing the ‘variable names’ as defined in Annex 1. Subsequent records shall detail the values of these variables for each responding enterprise.
ANNEX V
Standard quality report
Member States shall submit a standard quality report in accordance with the European Statistical System Standard Quality Report Structure. A copy of the national questionnaire shall be submitted together with the standard quality report.
The standard quality criteria shall apply as follows:
1. RELEVANCE
Implementation of the survey and the degree to which statistics meet current and potential user needs. This covers a description of users and their individual needs and an evaluation to what degree these needs have been satisfied.
2. ACCURACY
2.1. Sampling errors
This covers:
Tables to be provided (broken down by NACE Rev. 2 and size classes according to the national sampling plan):
Tables to be provided for the observed effective sample (broken down by NACE Rev. 2 and size classes according to the national sampling plan):
2.2. Non-sampling errors
2.2.1. Coverage errors
This covers:
Tables to be provided for the observed effective sample (broken down by NACE Rev. 2 and size classes according to the national sampling plan):
2.2.2. Measurement errors
Where appropriate an assessment of errors that occurred at the stage of data collection due to:
2.2.3. Processing errors
This covers a description of the data editing process such as processing system and tools used, errors due to coding, editing, weighting or tabulation, quality checks at macro/micro level and corrections/failed edits.
2.2.4. Non-response errors
This covers an assessment of unit non-response and item non-response and a description of the measures undertaken regarding ‘re-contacts’ as well as:
Tables to be provided for the observed effective sample (broken down by NACE Rev. 2 and size classes according to the national sampling plan):
3. TIMELINESS AND PUNCTUALITY
This covers a table of dates when different phases of the project started and ended such as fieldwork (considering the different data collection modes), reminders and follow-up, data checking and editing, further validation and imputation, non-response survey (as appropriate) and estimations as well as data transmission to Eurostat and dissemination of national results.
4. ACCESSIBILITY AND CLARITY
This covers the type of results sent to enterprises, a dissemination scheme of results and a copy of any methodological documents about the statistics provided.
5. COMPARABILITY
This covers the deviations from the standard European questionnaire and definitions provided in the manual referred to in Article 8 and a description of links done with other statistical sources (use of certain data available in registers, survey linked to another national survey).
6. COHERENCE
This covers a comparison of statistics for the same phenomenon or item from other surveys or sources and an assessment of coherence with structural business statistics for the number of persons employed as a function of NACE Rev. 2 and size classes.
Tables to be provided for the observed effective sample (broken down by NACE Rev. 2 and size classes according to the national sampling plan):
7. COST AND BURDEN
This covers an analysis of the burden and benefit at national level through, for example, a consideration of average time for answering the questionnaire, problematic questions and variables, variables most/least useful in describing CVT at national level, estimated or actual satisfaction level of data users at national level, difference of burden between small and large enterprises and efforts made to reduce the burden.
( 1 ) OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 1.
( 2 ) Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes (OJ L 61, 5.3.2008, p. 6).
( 3 ) The coefficient of variation is the ratio of the square root of the variance of the estimator to the expected value. It is estimated by the ratio of the square root of the estimate of the sampling variance to the estimated value. The estimation of the sampling variance must take into account the sampling design and changes of strata.
( 4 ) The unit response rate is the ratio of the number of in scope respondents to the number of questionnaires sent to the population selected.
( 5 ) The item response rate for a variable is the ratio of the number of available data to the number of available and missing data (equal to the number of in scope respondents).