Continuing vocational training

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This table shows the core figures on continuing vocational training of enterprises with 10 and more employees in the private sector in the Netherlands.

Data available from: 1986 up to and including 2020

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are definite.

Changes as of 2 December 2022:
New figures for 2020 have been added.

When will new figures be published?
New figures for 2025 are expected in 2027.

Description topics

Training enterprises
Enterprise:
The actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence in decisions about the process and by providing products to others.

Enterprises with 10 and more employees in the private sector providing training to their employees.
Enterprises with CVT activities
Percentage of enterprises with at least one employee having some form of vocational training. Continuing vocational training (CVT) is a training measure or activity which has as its primary objective the acquisition of new competencies or the development and improvement of existing ones and which must be financed at least partly by the enterprises for their employees. The training measures or activities must be planned in advance and must be organised or supported with the special goal of learning. CVT consist among others things of courses, guided on the job-training, study visits, self directed learning, and attendence at conferences, workshop and lectures (only if the main goal is learning or training).
Enterprises with courses
Percentage of enterprises with at least one employee having a CVT course. CVT courses are typically clearly separated from the active work place (learning takes place in locations specially assigned for learning like a class room or training centre). They exhibit a high degree of organisation (time, space and content) by a trainer or a training institution. The content is designed for a group of learners (e.g. a curriculum exists).
Excluding personal absence costs
Expenditures on CVTS courses excluding the costs of paid working time spend on CVT courses.
Spent per training hour
Average expenditure per training hour spend on CVT courses.
Including personal absence costs
Expenditures on CVTS courses including the costs of paid working time spend on CVT courses.
Spent per training hour
Average expenditure per training hour spend on CVT courses.