Statistics in Focus: Population and social conditions. Training after 30 years of age. 1997.11

Abstract

According to the results of the Labour Force Survey, just over 8 million Europeans over 30 years of age declared in Spring 1996 that they had received teaching or training in the four weeks preceding the interview. Training rates are higher in northern Europe: 11.8% in Denmark, 11.7% in Sweden, 10.7% in Finland, 8.6% in the Netherlands and 7.4% in the United Kingdom, as against an EU average of 3.6%. Current statistical tools do not permit all training measures aimed at the unemployed to be identified. Thus, this study focuses on the 6.3 million people in employment following training. It emerges that being new to the job and having qualifications are important factors in increasing training opportunities.