Skills Training Focus in Austrian Enterprises: Continuing Vocational Training Patterns 2010-2020

Key Insights

• Specialist Skills Dominance: Specialist skills consistently show the highest training focus, with 68.9% in 2010, 62.7% in 2015, and 59.4% in 2020, though showing a declining trend.
• Customer Handling Training: Remained relatively stable and high, fluctuating from 39.6% (2010) to 30.4% (2015) and back up to 34.6% (2020).
• Management Skills Decline: Significant decrease from 35.4% in 2010 to 16.5% in 2020, indicating reduced focus on management training.
• Digital Skills Stability: General IT skills training remained relatively stable around 34.7% (2010), 16.8% (2015), and 20.1% (2020).
• Emerging Focus on Other Skills: “Other” skills category showed growth from 14.4% in 2010 to 22.8% in 2020.
• Language Training Decline: Foreign language training dropped significantly from 16.9% in 2010 to 4.3% in 2020.
• Data Quality Note: Numerical literacy shows very low values with 0.3% in 2015, indicating either minimal training focus or potential data collection challenges.

Chart Information

Chart Type: Multi-series Line Chart

Colors Used: Primary color #18baa8 with complementary shades for different skill categories

Time Period: 2010, 2015, 2020

Data Source: Eurostat dataset trng_cvt_29n2 – Total across all NACE sectors