Continuity and change: employers’ training practices and partnerships with training providers

Employer survey – selected results by firm size

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees	50-99 employees	100-499 employees	500+ employees
	50	18	44	59

Q1.2 How many employees approximately are in your entire business/organisation in Australia?

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees			50-99 employees			100-499 employees			500+ employees
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
	50	12.7	12.5	18	69.6	16.2	44	243.6	112.1	59	11011.5	23203.7

Q1.3 We would like to know how many sites you have. Is your business/organisation:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Located at a single site	41	82.0	7	38.9	12	27.3	3	5.1
Multi-site (up to 9 branches)	9	18.0	10	55.6	26	59.1	15	25.4
Multiple sites (10+ branches)	0	0.0	0	0.0	6	13.6	37	62.7
Other	0	0.0	1	5.6	0	0.0	4	6.8

Q1.4 Please estimate the percentage of employees in the following classifications:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees			50-99 employees			100-499 employees			500+ employees
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
Full-time permanent	50	74.2	34.0	17	74.7	27.5	41	70.1	23.2	54	64.3	22.5
Part-time permanent	50	13.3	25.2	17	13.1	12.5	41	14.8	11.9	54	16.8	15.4
Casual (either full-time or part-time)	50	6.7	20.1	18	5.7	11.5	42	8.4	11.5	54	11.9	11.9
Contractors	50	5.9	18.4	18	7.3	16.4	42	7.3	11.7	54	7.0	8.0

Q1.6 To what extent does government regulation or licensing affect the market for the sales and/or services of your business/organisation?

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
A great deal	16	32.0	6	33.3	17	40.5	17	59.3
Somewhat	26	52.0	9	50.0	22	52.4	22	35.2
Not at all	8	16.0	3	16.7	3	7.1	3	5.6

Q1.7 Over the last five years, has your business/organisation:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Expanded its operations	18	36.0	9	50.0	21	50.0	30	55.6
Stayed about the same	30	60.0	5	27.8	19	45.2	20	37.0
Reduced its operations	2	4.0	4	22.2	2	4.8	4	7.4

Q1.8 Over the last five years, has your business/organisation:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Added new products and services	18	36.7	8	44.4	19	45.2	35	64.8
Stayed about the same	27	55.1	9	50.0	22	52.4	17	31.5
Reduced its range of products and services	4	8.2	1	5.6	1	2.4	2	3.7

Q1.9 Over the last five years has the total number of employees in your business/organisation:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Increased	15	30.6	6	33.3	19	42.5	21	38.9
Stayed the same	31	63.3	6	33.3	16	38.1	17	31.5
Declined	3	6.1	6	33.3	7	16.7	16	29.6

Q1.10 Over the last five years, in your opinion, has the use of technology in your industry:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Increased rapidly	10	20.4	2	11.1	9	21.4	16	29.6
Increased steadily	27	55.1	12	66.7	28	66.7	35	64.8
Undergone no real change	11	22.4	4	22.2	5	11.9	3	5.6
Declined	1	2.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0

Q1.11 Over the last five years, in your opinion, have the skill needs of your industry:

	Firm Size
	1-49 employees		50-99 employees		100-499 employees		500+ employees
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Increased rapidly	6	12.2	3	17.6	8	19.0	10	18.5
Increased steadily	26	53.1	9	52.9	24	57.1	34	63.0
Undergone no real change	16	32.7	4	23.5	10	23.8	10	18.5
Declined	1	2.0	1	5.9	0	0.0	0	0.0