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)

Type Regulation

Publication 2006-02-03

State In force

Department European Commission

Source EUR-Lex

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

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 description
COUNTRY	ID	Country code
ENTERPR	ID	Enterprise ID
REFYEAR	ID	Reference year
WEIGHT	ID	Weighting factor. Two decimal positions — use ‘.’ as decimal separator
NACE_SP	ID	Sampling plan economic activity category
SIZE_SP	ID	Sampling plan size group
NSTRA_SP	ID	Sampling plan — number of enterprises in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP, i.e. the population
N_SP	ID	Sampling plan — number of sampled enterprises from the sample-frame in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP
SUB_SP	ID	Sub-sample indicator, shows if enterprise belongs to sub-sample
N_RESPST	ID	Number of responding enterprises in the stratum defined by NACE_SP and SIZE_SP
N_EMPREG	ID	Number of persons employed according to the register
RESPONSE	ID	Response indicator (sampling unit type)
PROC	ID	Data collection mode
IDLANGUA	ID	Language of data collection
IDREGION	ID	Region identification NUTS — level 1
EXTRA1	ID	Extra variable 1 (see Annex III)
EXTRA2	ID	Extra variable 2 (see Annex III)
EXTRA3	ID	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		QT	Total number of males employed on 31 December of the reference year
A2f		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 type	Variable description
A8	QL	Person or unit within the enterprise with responsibility for the organisation of CVT
A9	QM	Assessment of future skill needs of the enterprise
		Yes but not regularly (mainly linked to changes in personnel)
		Yes, it is part of the overall planning process in the enterprise
		No
A10	QM	Reaction to future needs through
		Continuing vocational training of current staff
		Recruitment of new staff with the suitable qualifications, skills and competences
		Recruitment of new staff combined with specific training
		Internal reorganisation to better use existing skills and competences
A12	QM	Skills and competences important in the next few years (3 most important)
		General IT skills
		IT professional skills
		Management skills
		Team working skills
		Customer handling skills
		Problem solving skills
		Office administration skills
		Foreign language skills
		Technical, practical or job-specific skills
		Oral or written communication skills
		Numeracy and/or literacy skills
		None of these
		Do not know
A13	QL	Planning of CVT in the enterprise leads to a written training plan or programme
A14	QL	Annual training budget, which includes provision for CVT
A15	QL	National, sector or other agreements between the social partners, which cover the provision of CVT
A16a	QL	Staff representatives/committees involved in the management process of CVT
A16b	QM	Aspects covered by staff representatives/committees
		Objective setting of training
		Establishing criteria for the selection of participants or specific target groups
		Form/type of training (e.g. internal/external courses; other forms such as guided-on-the-job training)
		Content of training
		Budget for training
		Selection of external training providers
		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
		QM	Participation in guided-on-the-job training
			Less than 10 % of all persons employed
			From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed
			50 % or more of all persons employed
B2b	Core	QL	Provision of job rotation, exchanges, secondments or study visits in the reference year
		QM	Participation in job rotation, exchanges, secondments or study visits
			Less than 10 % of all persons employed
			From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed
			50 % or more of all persons employed
B2c	Core	QL	Participation in conferences/workshops in the reference year
		QM	Participation in conferences/workshops
			Less than 10 % of all persons employed
			From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed
			50 % or more of all persons employed
B2d	Core	QL	Participation in learning or quality circles in the reference year
		QM	Participation in learning or quality circles
			Less than 10 % of all persons employed
			From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed
			50 % or more of all persons employed
B2e	Core	QL	Planned training by self-directed learning/e-learning in the reference year
		QM	Participation in self-directed learning/e-learning
			Less than 10 % of all persons employed
			From 10 % to less than 50 % of all persons employed
			50 % or more of all persons employed
B3		QL	Provision of CVT courses in the year before the reference year
B4		QL	Provision of other forms of CVT in the year before the reference year
B5a		QL	Existence of CVT contributions in the reference year
		QT	Amount of CVT contributions (in euros)
B5b		QL	Existence of CVT receipts in the reference year
		QT	Amount of CVT receipts (in euros)
B6		QM	Measures from which the enterprise benefits
			Tax incentives (tax allowances, tax exemptions, tax credits, tax relief, tax deferrals)
			Receipts from training funds (national, regional, sector)
			EU subsidies (e.g. European Social Fund)
			Government subsidies
			Other sources
			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.:

— enterprises providing CVT courses in 2015 [(B1a or B1b) = yes], or

— enterprises providing other forms of CVT in 2015 [(B2a or B2b or B2c or B2d or B2e) = yes].

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		QT	Number of CVT course participants — males
C2f		QT	Number of CVT course participants — females
C3tot	Key	QT	Paid working time (in hours) spent on all CVT courses
C3i		QT	Paid working time (in hours) for internal CVT courses
C3e		QT	Paid working time (in hours) for external CVT courses
C4		QT	Share of training hours spent on obligatory courses for health and safety at work
C5		QM	Subjects covered (3 most important)
			General IT skills
			IT professional skills
			Management skills
			Team working skills,
			Customer handling skills
			Problem solving skills
			Office administration skills
			Foreign language skills
			Technical, practical or job-specific skills
			Oral or written communication skills
			Numeracy and/or literacy skills
			None of these
C6		QM	Providers (external CVT courses) (3 most important)
			Schools, colleges, universities and other higher education institutions
			Public training institutions (financed or guided by the government; e.g. adult education centres)
			Private training companies
			Private companies of which the main activity is not training
			Employers' associations, chambers of commerce, sector bodies
			Trade unions
			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		QL	Existence of fees or payments for courses
		QT	CVT course costs — fees and payments for courses for employees (in euros)
C7b		QL	Existence of travel or subsistence payments
		QT	CVT course costs — travel and subsistence payments (in euros)
C7c		QL	Existence of labour costs of internal trainers
		QT	CVT course costs — labour costs of internal trainers (in euros)
C7d		QL	Existence of costs of training centre, rooms or teaching materials
		QT	CVT course costs — training centre, rooms and teaching materials for CVT courses (in euros)
C7sub		QL	Existence of ‘CVT costs sub-total’ only (no sub-categories)
	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

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