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>From:   IES NCES Webmaster

>Sent:   Monday, May 02, 2005 10:07 AM

>Subject:        Reasons for Adults' Participation in Work-Related Courses, 

>2002-03

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>This new NCES Issue Brief uses nationally representative data from the 

>Adult Education for Work-related Reasons Survey of the 2003 National 

>Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) to examine the reasons that 

>adults participate in formal educational courses for work-related 

>reasons.  More than 90 percent of adults who took such courses in 2002-03 

>reported doing so in order to maintain or improve skills or knowledge they 

>already had. Among employed adults, the majority took courses because 

>their employer required or recommended participation, while about a fifth 

>did so in order to get a promotion or pay raise. The likelihood of taking 

>classes for the selected reasons examined in this Brief generally varied 

>by participants' age, education, employment status, occupation, and 

>household income.

>To Download, view and print the report as a pdf file, please visit:

>http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005088