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This publication contains a summary of statistics on persons undertaking vocational training through contracts of training arrangements (apprenticeships and traineeships) for the quarter ending 30 September 2007. It looks at the estimates of apprentices and trainees who were training as at 30 September 2007 and at longer term trends for in-training figures. Commencement numbers provide the best guide for the direction of any change in the apprentice and trainee population. Newly commencing apprentices and trainees were predominantly aged 19 and under, and male. There was considerable variation in growth in commencements with inceases in numbers in the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, Western Australia and New South Wales and with numbers declining in the remaining states and territories. Newly commencing apprentices and trainees were predominantly immediate clerical, sales and service workers, followed by trades and related workers.