ERIC ED573446: On the Way to 2020: Data for Vocational Education and Training Policies. Country Statistical Overviews--2016 Update. Cedefop Research Paper. No 61

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Country statistical overviews
2016 update

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© European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), 2017
All rights reserved.
The European Centre for the Development
of Vocational Training (Cedefop) is the European Union’s
reference centre for vocational education and training.
We provide information on and analyses of vocational education and
training systems, policies, research and practice.
Cedefop was established in 1975
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75.

Europe 123, 570 01 Thessaloniki (Pylea), GREECE
PO Box 22427, 551 02 Thessaloniki, GREECE
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Joachim James Calleja, Director
Micheline Scheys, Chair of the Governing Board

On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies
Country statistical overviews – 2016 update
Foreword

This report provides an update of Cedefop’s statistical overview of vocational
education and training (VET) and lifelong learning in European countries. It
covers challenges and opportunities arising from developments in the statistical
infrastructure. It details the situation of each country and, to best possible extent,
their progress on 36 indicators selected for policy relevance and contribution to
Europe 2020 objectives. Key areas of education and training policy in Europe are
covered using national evidence: access, attractiveness and flexibility of initial
and continuous VET; investment, skill developments and labour market
relevance in VET; and labour market transitions and employment trends.
The report is the fourth edition of the Cedefop publication, On the way to
2020: data for vocational education and training policies: country statistical
overviews. It results from Cedefop’s continuing efforts to update, review and
improve key indicators as new and better quality data become available. It helps
disseminate relevant data on VET in a concise and user-friendly way.
There is new evidence from the European statistical system (ESS),
including recent updates from the EU labour force survey (EU-LFS) and
UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat (UOE) joint data collection on education. Latest data
from Cedefop skills supply and demand forecasts and from the Eurofound
European working conditions survey (EWCS) are also included.
Data is based on international statistics, including 36 selected indicators,
providing policy-relevant and useful information on European VET priorities and
lifelong learning policies. This information is supplemented by a chart and short
text highlighting key findings in each country.
This publication should be regarded as a tool to help policymakers
reflecting on the situation and progresses in each country. Statistical reporting
through the lens of internationally comparable data can inform monitoring design,
implementation and fine-tuning of VET policies.

Joachim James Calleja
Director

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On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies
Country statistical overviews – 2016 update
Acknowledgements

This publication was produced by Cedefop, Department for
skills and labour market, under the supervision of Pascaline
Descy. Cedefop expert Marco Serafini was responsible for the
publication and the work conducted under the Statistics and
indicators project.
Cedefop would like to thank the HIVA Education and Lifelong
Learning Research Group and the Centre for Educational
Effectiveness and Evaluation, both at KU Leuven, for carrying
out the underlying methodological and statistical work and
updating the report.

The work was carried out under Cedefop’s framework contract
No 2015/FWC11/A0DSL/MSERA/Statistical services/008/15.

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On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies
Country statistical overviews – 2016 update
Table of contents

Foreword ....................................................................................................... 1
Introduction ................................................................................................... 4
Part I Member States of the European Union ................................................. 25
1. Belgium ................................................................................................ 26
2. Bulgaria ................................................................................................ 30
3. Czech Republic .................................................................................... 34
4. Denmark ............................................................................................... 38
5. Germany ............................................................................................... 42
6. Estonia ................................................................................................. 46
7. Ireland .................................................................................................. 50
8. Greece.................................................................................................. 54
9. Spain .................................................................................................... 58
10. France .................................................................................................. 62
11. Croatia .................................................................................................. 66
12. Italy ....................................................................................................... 70
13. Cyprus .................................................................................................. 74
14. Latvia .................................................................................................... 78
15. Lithuania ............................................................................................... 82
16. Luxembourg ......................................................................................... 86
17. Hungary ................................................................................................ 90
18. Malta .................................................................................................... 94
19. Netherlands .......................................................................................... 98
20. Austria ................................................................................................ 102
21. Poland ................................................................................................ 106
22. Portugal .............................................................................................. 110
23. Romania ............................................................................................. 114
24. Slovenia .............................................................................................. 118
25. Slovakia .............................................................................................. 122
26. Finland................................................................................................ 126
27. Sweden .............................................................................................. 130
28. United Kingdom .................................................................................. 134
Part II Selected EFTA and candidate countries ............................................ 139
29. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...................................... 140
30. Iceland ................................................................................................ 144
31. Norway ............................................................................................... 148
32. Switzerland ......................................................................................... 152
33. Turkey ................................................................................................ 156
References ................................................................................................ 160
Annex Short description of indicators ........................................................ 164

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On the way to 2020: data for vocational education and training policies
Country statistical overviews – 2016 update
Introduction
Aim
European policy-making and analysis in vocational education and training (VET)
need to be informed and supported by sound qualitative and quantitative
information.
This report, as a follow up to Cedefop publication On the way to 2020: data
for vocational education and training policies: country statistical overviews
(Cedefop, 2015a) updates and complements a concise set of core statistical
indicators, quantifying key aspects of VET and lifelong learning to help describe,
monitor and compare European countries and their progress.
The indicators, selected for their policy relevance as well as their
importance for achieving the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, have been
updated. They consider fresh data as well as emerging challenges and
opportunities for statistical reporting which have stemmed from recent
developments in the statistical infrastructure. Indicators now incorporate new
hard evidence from the European statistical system, including the most recent
updates from the EU labour force survey and the UOE data collection on
education. Latest data from Cedefop skills supply and demand forecasts and
from the Eurofound European working conditions survey (EWCS) are also
considered. Indicators are now expressed within the methodological context set
by ISCED 2011 and its implementation in international surveys and data
collection.
Taking 2010 as the baseline year, to coincide with the launch of the
strategy and the revised European VET policy framework, 36 core indicators are
published as ‘statistical overviews’ of each country: the 28 European Union (EU)
Member States and, where data are available, for the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. The format is intended
to be easy to use and data are supplemented with a commentary highlighting
interesting points for each country.
The core indicators do not claim to assess national systems or policies.
Statistics have their limitations: they can oversimplify complex issues; to be
understood properly they must be read in context; and there are inevitable time
lags. The core indicators are headline figures for summary overviews. Detailed
monitoring requires much more data, detailed breakdowns and thorough
analysis.
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