EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL ATTAINMENT                                 

Table 9(c) - Percentage of employees¹ receiving job related training² in the last 4 weeks                                 

Per cent			GO Region/Country
		United Kingdom	North East	North West	Yorkshire and the Humber	East Midlands	West Midlands	East of England	London	South East	South West	England	Wales	Scotland	Northern Ireland
1999	Q2	16.0	16.5	14.7	17.1	14.7	15.4	15.8	16.6	17.9	16.6	16.2	14.8	15.1	12.6
	Q4	16.3	13.9	15.6	17.3	15.5	16.3	15.7	17.1	17.6	17.5	16.5	14.4	15.7	13.7
2000	Q2	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Q4	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
2001	Q2	16.5	16.4	16.9	17.0	14.1	16.9	16.3	18.0	16.7	17.0	16.7	15.9	15.3	13.6
	Q4	17.5	18.6	17.6	17.6	15.5	16.8	16.2	19.5	18.0	18.7	17.7	16.5	16.6	15.9
2002	Q2	16.5	17.2	16.5	16.6	15.9	16.2	14.7	17.8	17.0	17.6	16.6	16.9	15.1	14.4
	Q4	17.5	18.1	16.7	18.6	17.1	17.7	14.9	18.4	18.4	18.3	17.6	19.6	16.6	15.7
2003	Q2	15.5	15.7	15.5	15.9	14.5	15.4	14.4	16.3	15.4	15.7	15.4	17.9	15.0	13.3
	Q4	17.2	19.1	16.6	17.8	17.2	16.9	16.0	17.8	17.9	16.9	17.3	18.2	16.7	13.8
2004	Q2	16.0	18.8	15.6	17.0	16.2	15.4	14.6	16.2	16.2	15.9	16.0	18.1	15.9	10.4
	Q4	17.2	18.3	17.5	18.4	18.0	17.2	16.2	16.2	17.8	17.4	17.3	17.6	17.6	11.8
2005	Q2	16.4	19.0	17.0	17.1	16.1	15.7	15.8	14.6	17.4	17.2	16.5	17.8	15.7	12.2
	Q4	16.5	17.7	16.5	17.1	16.3	15.6	15.8	17.1	16.1	17.4	16.5	17.4	17.0	10.1
2006	Q2	15.2	17.8	15.7	15.0	15.5	14.9	13.2	15.7	14.8	16.0	15.2	16.6	15.8	8.7
	Q4	15.9	19.9	15.6	14.7	16.3	16.5	15.7	14.8	16.1	16.8	16.0	16.9	16.5	8.9
1 Employees are those working age (defined as Males aged 16-64 and Females aged 16-59) in employment excluding the self-employed, unpaid family workers and those on government programmes. 2 Job-related training includes both on and off-the-job training. These figures have been revised in line with Census 2001 results by ONS. Source: Department for Education and Skills analyses of the ONS Labour Force Survey