Continuing education

At a glance

	Total %	Total confidence interval ±
Population (25 - 74 years old) 2021
Participation in continuing education	44.8	0.9
Time spent on continuing education per participant
Less than 8 hours	20.3	1.1
8 to 40 hours	35.9	1.4
More than 40 hours	43.8	1.4
Personal expenses for continuing education per participant
CHF 0	55.5	1.4
CHF 1 - 100	4.2	0.6
CHF 101 - 500	11.2	0.9
CHF 501 - 1000	8.5	0.8
More than CHF 1000	20.6	1.1
Companies 2015
Training companies	89	1.2
Employees having participated in continuingeducation and training	44	2.7
Direct cost for training (in % of total labour costs)	0.8	0.1
Time spent for training (in % of total hours worked)	0.8	0.1

Sources: FSO – Swiss Adult Education Survey (MZB), Swiss Continuing Education and Training Survey (SBW)