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The second survey of continuing vocational training (CVTS2) was launched by the European Commission and follows on from the first survey conducted in 1994 of the Member States of the European Union. The second survey was conducted in 2000 and 2001 in all the Member States, Norway and nine candidate countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Pomorskie region of Poland, Romania and Slovenia). Enterprises participating in the survey provided comparable statistical data on continuing training in the workplace, the supply of, and demand for, vocational knowledge and skills, the need for continuing training and the forms, contents and scope of continuing training, inhouse training resources and the use of external training providers, and the costs of continuing training. This publication provides key information on access to CVT. Access is analysed in terms of participation rates in CVT courses in each country according to gender, size of enterprise and sector of economic activity. The data for Greece, France, Italy and the UK were not available at the time of publication. The survey results revealed: (a) a very pronounced difference in participation rates between the Nordic countries and some southern and eastern European countries; (b) small disparities in participation rates by gender in most countries; (c) more opportunities for men and women to participate when employed by large enterprises; and (d) that specific economic sector effect explained differences in participation rather than any gender effect.