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Apprentices and trainees 2007 - Annual

This publication presents estimates and analysis of training activity undertaken by apprentices and trainees in Australia in the period from 1997 to 2007. An apprentice or trainee is a person undertaking vocational training through a contracted training arrangement.

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) publishes apprentice and trainee statistics on a quarterly basis. This publication provides summary data and additional information on training rates, completion rates, attrition rates, training within the trades, and duration of training.

3.8% of Australian workers were employed as an apprentice or trainee as of December 2007, compared with 2.2% in 1997.

Within the trades, the rate of training (apprentices and trainees as a proportion of the number of individuals employed) as of December 2007 was 14.3%, compared with 11.0% in 1997.

The completion rate for individual apprentices and trainees who started their training during 2002 was 49.5%.

Attrition rates from contracts within the ﬁrst 12 months for trade apprentices and trainees have been steady for the cohorts commencing between 2003 and 2006.

27.5% of all trade apprentices and trainees completing higher-level qualiﬁcations (certiﬁcate III and above) in 2007 completed their training in two years or less, compared with 16.5% in 1997.