User guide to developing an employer survey on skill needs

This Cedefop publication is part of a toolkit, including questionnaire and data set, for researchers to carry out employer surveys in international or national contexts. It illustrates an approach tested in 2012 for identifying employer’s skill needs, in nine Member States. The guide offers recommendations for a survey covering a range of occupations, sample size calculations, maximising response rates, and ensuring the validity of the instrument as well as subsequent inferences.

• Primary Source

CEDEFOP: Research Paper: No.35: User guide to developing an employer survey on skill needs http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/5535_en.pdf

CEDEFOP: Research Paper: No.36: Piloting a European employer survey on skill needs: Illustrative findings http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/publications/22092.aspx

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