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121 Monthly Lab. Rev. 3 (1998)
Results from the 1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training

handle is hein.journals/month121 and id is 575 raw text is: Results from the 1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training A new survey finds that U.S. employers allocate considerable time and resources to training their employees; the incidence offormal training tends to be higher at establishments that are larger and that have lower turnover and more benefits, among other characteristics n recent years, the issue of worker training has been pushed to the forefront of public policy circles. Concerns center around the de- cline in real wages of less educated workers, the effect of work organization on the demand for skills in the workplace, and the question whether U.S. workers are appropriately trained to meet the challenge of changes in job requirements brought about by the introduction of new tech- nology.) In spite of the importance of this issue, substantial gaps exist in our knowledge of such fundamental questions as how much training takes place, who provides it, and who gets it.2 The lack of high-quality data on the amount of training being provided and on the costs of such training has been due primarily to the difficulty in measuring these variables. Because no univer- sally accepted definition of training exists, esti- mates on the amount of training vary consider- ably from survey to survey. Some surveys collect information only on training that is highly struc- tured, such as time spent informal company train- ing programs. This kind of approach ignores the more unstructured, informal ways in which em- ployees can learn job-related skills. The aim of this article is to fill in some of these gaps, making use of data recently collected in a survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: the 1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training (sEmr95). This survey has a number of unique fea- tures that make it a valuable source of data for studying training practices: information on both formal and informal training is collected; the in- tensity of training is measured in such a way as to minimize recall problems; data on training ex- penditures are collected, making use of records already kept; and both establishments and em- ployees at those establishments are surveyed, pro- viding a wide range of characteristics that can be used in an analysis of training intensity. The sections that follow use results from SEPT95 to address a number of different questions about employer-provided training: How much training is provided? How much of training is for- mal and how much is informal? How much do establishments spend on training? And what types of establishments offer training, and what types of employees are receiving it? SEPT95 sEPr95 was conducted by the Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics for the Employment Training Administra- tion of the U.S. Department of Labor in order to provide nationally representative data on the cur- rent training practices of employers. A sample of 1,433 establishments was drawn to represent the universe of all private establishments with 50 or Monthly Labor Review June 1998 3 Harley Frazis, Maury Gittleman, Michael Horrigan, and Mary Joyce Authors' identification is on page 12,

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