1. Education and Training Statistics Working Group – 1-2 June 2017
Item 7.2 Implementation of the Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)
Eurostat F3
Education and Training Statistics Working Group – 1-2 June 2017

2. Outline CVTS 5 – legislation in place Data transmission requirements
Methodological support to implementation
Validation and dissemination
Current situation of data transmission

3. CVTS 5 – legislation in place
Framework regulation: Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of 7 September 2005
Basic requirements / features of CVTS
Basic definitions, scope (NACE and size), transmission deadlines for microdata and quality reports, periodicity (every 5 years), etc.
Implementing act: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1153/2014 of 29 October 2014
Amendment of No 198/2006
Variables, sampling and precision requirements, imputation, weighting, data file format, quality reporting requirements

4. Data transmission requirements
30 June 2017: checked microdata files
3 CSV files via Edamis
non-imputed microdata file
imputed microdata file
control table (results)
format according to code book (annex 7 of CVTS 5 manual, 'dummy file' in CIRCABC)
30 September 2017: quality report
ESQRS-format via ESS-MH

5. Methodological support to implementation
CVTS 5 implementation manual + annexes
Available since March 2015
Current version
Manual - 1 December 2016
Annexes - 3 April 2017
Public domain in CIRCABC
Network informed by on availability and updates
CVTS 5 network
Information on changes in contact persons
Network list available in restricted domain in CIRCABC
Information on national planning (implementation monitor)

6. Methodological support to implementation
Data checking tool EDIT
Available since March 2016
Corrected versions, CVTS network informed on updates
Last version 8 March 'corrections in pipeline'
User manual, file format for data transmission ('dummy file')
Validation rules as specified in annex 8 and 9 of the CVTS 5 manual
EDIT tutorial sessions (webinars)
Eurostat 'helpdesk'
Jean for data validation and Sabine for methodology

7. Validation and dissemination
Validation - EDIT
The imputed microdata file has to pass EDIT
Countries should validate the data file with EDIT before transmission to Eurostat
Countries should provide an explanation for reported errors (exceptions from EDIT rules are possible)
Control tables
Part of the data transmission
Validation of results
Dissemination
Planned for autumn 2017
New structure of online database (presented at 2016 ETS WG)

8. Current situation of data transmission
Microdata files
Received: CZ, DE, IE, ES, LU, UK, NO (7)
Control tables
Quality report
Received: LU (1)

9. The ETS WG is invited to take note of and comment on:
Data transmission requirements
Methodological support to implementation
Validation and dissemination