Continuing education

At a glance

	Total %	Total confidence interval ±
Population (15 - 75 years old) 2016
Participation in continuing education	62.5	1.0
Time spent on continuing education per participant
Less than 8 hours	17.0	1.0
8 to 40 hours	37.4	1.3
More than 40 hours	45.6	1.3
Personal expenses for continuing education per participant
CHF 0	53.8	1.3
CHF 1 - 100	4.5	0.5
CHF 101 - 500	14.3	0.9
CHF 501 - 1000	9.2	0.7
More than CHF 1000	18.2	1.0
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)