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The second European Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS 2), carried out in 2000 in all European Union (EU) Member States, Norway and in nine applicant countries, looked at continuing training activities in 1999. It recorded the following continuing training measures in enterprises: training programs in the form of courses and seminars; continuing vocational training in the workplace; and other forms of continuing training in enterprises. Key findings of the survey include: 62% of enterprises offer continuing vocational training measures; the proportion of employees who participated in internal or external training courses in the enterprises surveyed is 47% in the EU; the European average for hours in courses per participant is 31 hours; the average total costs (sum of the direct costs and the personnel absence costs for the participants) per course hour for the 15 EU Member States were 50 PPS (purchasing power standards); and in most EU Member States, enterprises view the transfers of workers for the purpose of continuing vocational training as being of secondary importance. The contents are: The second European Continuing Vocational Training Survey; Continuing training offered by enterprises; Participants in training courses; Participation hours, fields covered and providers of training courses; Costs of training courses; Qualitative questions relating to continuing training in enterprises; Non-training enterprises; Comparison of structures for continuing training in enterprises between 1993 and 1999 (CVTS 1 and CVTS 2). Included as appendices are: Methodical comparison of the European continuing training surveys, CVTS 1 and CVTS 2; Indicators for selected countries.