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This publication presents data on apprentices and trainees in Australia in the period from 1996 to 2006. This publication provides some summary data, as well as additional information on training rates, completion rates, training within the trades, training duration, and prior education. Highlights of the analysis are: within the trades, rates of training have risen steadily since 1999; nearly four percent of Australian workers were employed as an apprentice or trainee as of December 2006, twice the training rate of a decade earlier; 23 per cent of non-trade commencements in 2006 were in Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) certificates I and II, compared with 77 per cent in 1996; 28 per cent of all trades apprentices and trainees completing higher-level quali cations (AQF certi cate III and above) in 2006 completed their training in two years or less; rates of completion vary by occupation for those apprentices and trainees who started their training during 2001, from 71 per cent for science, building and engineering professionals, to 34 per cent for food trades. The figures used in this publication are estimates which take into account reporting lags that occur at the time of data collection. Consequently, the figures in this publication may differ from those published in earlier or later reports.