2003 Generic Skills Survey

The Future Skills Wales (FSW) 2003 Generic Skills Survey is a survey of 6,000 individuals and 6,000 employers, chosen randomly across Wales and contacted between February and July 2003.

As its name suggests, the survey focuses on generic rather than job specific skills. This is an important measure because it relates to skills needed across most, or in some cases all, occupations. Welsh employers and individuals need sufficient access to these skills in order to develop in organisations and careers respectively in the years ahead.

These reports include information on:

• Employers’ present and future needs for generic skills, together with attitudes towards investment in skills development
• Recruitment practices and difficulties;
• Current and future supply of skills
• Barriers to participation in learning;
• Mismatches between skill supply and demand, hard-to-fill vacancies, skill shortages and gaps
• Comparisons with gaps and shortages in other UK nations

Regional Reports

As well as the summary and main report, reports are set out below in relation to the four economic regions of Wales, as well as the Objective 1 and 3 areas.

Sector Reports

Below are the Generic Skills Sector Reports which provide an overview of the results from the Employer Survey for the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs). These reports inform of the particular generic skill needs and deficiencies of a particular sector within Wales and enables comparison to the situation in Wales as a whole.