Annual Population Survey in Scotland 2005

This summary publication presents analysis on the labour market, education and training. Results are presented here at Scotland and sub-Scotland levels.


Job-related training

The proportion of working age people in employment who received job-related training in the last 3 months was estimated to be 30.1% in 2005.

Table 23 shows the proportion of working age people in employment receiving job-related training in the last 3 months by workplace local authority area in 2005.

Those working in the City of Edinburgh were most likely to have received training in the last 3 months (with an estimate of 36.5%), whereas at the other end, only 22.4% of those working in Midlothian were estimated to have received job related training in the last 3 months.

Table 23: Proportion of working age people in employment receiving job-related training in the last 3 months by workplace local authority area, 2004-2005

Geography

2004

2005

Proportion

Proportion

Scotland

31.4%

30.1%

Workplace Local Authority Area

Aberdeen City

32.8%

28.8%

Aberdeenshire

27.0%

25.3%

Angus

29.7%

29.7%

Argyll & Bute

26.1%

26.4%

Clackmannanshire

28.5%

28.2%

Dumfries & Galloway

28.4%

29.7%

Dundee City

33.2%

30.9%

East Ayrshire

26.2%

27.6%

East Dunbartonshire

28.4%

27.8%

East Lothian

30.7%

32.0%

East Renfrewshire

29.1%

31.8%

Edinburgh, City of

35.1%

36.5%

Eilean Siar

27.1%

26.0%

Falkirk

31.2%

34.2%

Fife

33.1%

29.4%

Glasgow City

31.9%

30.0%

Highland

29.5%

28.0%

Inverclyde

33.2%

34.3%

Midlothian

29.6%

22.4%

Moray

33.3%

34.0%

North Ayrshire

28.2%

27.7%

North Lanarkshire

29.8%

25.4%

Orkney Islands

31.9%

32.7%

Perth & Kinross

28.2%

29.4%

Renfrewshire

31.3%

29.8%

Scottish Borders

29.7%

24.8%

Shetland Islands

34.5%

31.9%

South Ayrshire

32.9%

29.6%

South Lanarkshire

27.6%

26.9%

Stirling

31.3%

30.1%

West Dunbartonshire

34.3%

30.0%

West Lothian

29.9%

26.9%

Note: Workplace is only available at local authority area.

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