1993 Survey of Employer-Provided Training – Employer Results — 1994-09-23

Virtually all large establishments provided at least some formal training to their employees in 1993, compared with 69 percent of establishments with fewer than 50 employees, according to a survey of employer-provided training conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Overall, 71 percent of employers provided some type of formal training to their employees. The survey, which was sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, measures six different types of training provided or financed by employers: Orientation, safety and health, apprenticeship, basic skills, workplace-related, and job skills. The findings in this release are based on a survey of nearly 12,000 private nonagricultural business establishments that was conducted between February and July of 1994.