Description of concepts since January 2007

Introduction.

Occupational Training is not part of the Regulated Education System, but a tool that facilitates the incorporation and permanence of workers in the world of work, as well as their occupational mobility, allowing their qualifications, conversion and refinement depending on the prospects offered by the market.

Initially, occupational training was conducted by the National Institute of employment (INEM), but the transfer of the management of this training to the Autonomous Communities and the allocation of the training of workers to separate entities to institute, led to the publication "occupational training Statistics", was present with the following groups of tables:

• National data: in which joins the formation managed by the INEM and by the Autonomous Communities.
• Management data Autonomous Communities: where only appears training managed by the Autonomous Communities who have transferred this competition.
• INEM management data: in the displayed data from the training conducted in National Centres dependent on INEM and by the Autonomous Communities that do not yet have transferred the management of occupational training.

In the transfer of the management of occupational training, the administration of the state, reserves, among other functions, statistics for vocational occupational state purposes, to which end Autonomous communities, in accordance with Article 19 . 2 the royal decree 631 / 1993 , must provide the data that are required according to the established methodology in general, in a manner which ensured its integration with the rest of the statistical information state for the same subjects.

Transfers are as follows:

• Generalitat de Cataluña. R.D. 1578 / 91 of 18 October, with effect from the 1 January 1992 .
• Generalitat Valenciana. R.D. 1371 / 92 of 13 November, with effect from the 1 January 1993 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia R.D.. 146 / 93 of 29 January, with effect from the 1 January 1993 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía. R.D. 427 / 93 of 26 March, with effect from the 1 January 1993 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias R.D.. 447 / 94 of 11 March, with effect from the 3 March 1994 .
• Comunidad Foral de Navarra R.D.. 1319 / 97 of 1 August, with effect from the 1 January 1998 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura R.D.. 2024 / 97 of 26 December, with effect from the 1 January 1998 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón. R.D. 300 / 98 of 27 February, with effect from the 1 May 1998 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de las Islas Baleares R.D.. 621 / 98 of 17 April, with effect from the 1 May 1998 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha R.D.. 1661 / 98 of 24 July, with effect from the 1 September 1998
• Comunidad de Madrid R.D.. 2534 / 98 of 27 November, with effect from the 1 January 1999 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria R.D.. 2672 / 98 of 11 December, with effect from the 1 January 1999 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja R.D.. 41 / 99 of 15 January, with effect from the 1 February 1999 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León. R.D. 148 / 99 of 29 January, with effect from the 1 March 1999 .
• Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia R.D.. 522 / 1999 of 26 March, with effect from the 1 July 1999 .
• Principado de Asturias R.D.. 2088 / 99 of 30 December, with effect from the 1 January 2000 .

Sources.

This statistic is obtained from the information contained in the database of Occupational Training fueled by the INEM itself, autonomous communities that have not yet transferred occupational training and those with the management transferred using this application, so that your data are compatible with the extraction processes and tabulation set.

It also includes information provided by other computer tracks by the Autonomous Communities devolved management which do not use the applicatifs INEM if this information is integrable to overcome the requirements to be introduced in the above database and exploited with criteria of extraction and existing tab.

Vetting reject incorrect rows and/or incomplete that, once corrected, enter the corresponding monthly statistics, which can produce differences between the data provided in this statistic and those provided directly by the management bodies.

Concepts.

For the best interpretation of the information contained in the statistical tables, describes the concepts and classifications most usual:

Courses.

• Started. Indicates that the course has begun in the period in which reflects its high.
• Finished. The course has finished in the period reflecting its low.
• In operation. Indicates that the course was opened in previous months and remains active in the period in which is reflected.

Students.

Situations of students with regard to a course are as follows:

• High. Refers to students who are incorporated into existing courses or courses initiated in the reporting period.
• Low. Are the casualties of students that occur in the period covered, whether or not completed the course.

The casualties of students in courses completed (current leavers) is broken down into positive evaluation (students trained) or negative assessment. The casualties of pupils in unfinished courses are broken down into placement and other causes.

• Students trained. Are considered students formed only those who complete the course with positive assessment.
• Students studying (in training). it includes the total number of pupils at the last day of the period covered are attending courses.

Type of facility.

Is the physical location where courses are developed. Possible options are:

• Own. The courses are taught in a center owned by the managing body designed to learning or temporarily premises devoted to this activity (own, rented, assigned, modular centers, centers mobile or units of formative action), with the strength of the managing body.
• Partner. The courses are taught in premises of collaborating centres authorised (or companies Collaborating Centres with collaboration agreements).

Path of programming.

Under this heading are included the different paths or modes of programming and execution that constitute the operating systems of operation commonly used. Are regarded as follows:

• Direct courses. Are programmed courses annually to make themselves of the managing body, both material and human. This includes the made via extraordinary, whose implementation procedure is special because of its nature of recognized necessity and urgency.
• Courses in Collaborating centres. The courses of collaborating centres are taught by institutions or public or private organizations Collaborating Centres certified as for training.
• Courses in companies with commitment recruitment. Are courses offered by companies or business organizations that subscribe to a collaboration agreement with the managing body, incorporating a commitment of hiring by companies themselves of at least 60 percent of students trained.
• Contracts courses Program. Are courses in business or trade organizations, agencies joint formation of Sectoral scope state and organizations representing the social economy that have signed an Contrato-programa with the managing body.

Formative speciality of the course.

Tries to define the aim of the course and the level of knowledge or skills acquired by the student in the process formativo.La classification is as follows:

1. Certificate of occupancy professionalism. Course that trains for the performance of an occupation with certificate of professionalism as stipulated in the Royal Decree and allows for obtaining the certificate. Responds to a formative occupational and established.
2. Specific. Course that trains for the performance of a significant craft part of an occupation, or allow to deepen or specialize in Specific areas of the same.
3. Credit specific Occupational training Course for the performance of those skills with value and meaning in employment. Represents a fundamental part and independent of an occupation with certificate of professionalism.

Families professionals.

The object of vocational courses are classified in the following groups related, under the name of families professionals: