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The UK Commission’s Employer Skills Survey (UKCESS) is the largest of its kind on the world. It gives a comprehensive and robust picture of skills needs and training investment in UK business. Topics covered in the survey include training and staff development, vacancies and skills shortages, employee skill gaps and the recruitment of education leavers. The UKCESS 2011 is the first survey in the series. In January 2013, the second in this series, the UK Commission's Employer Skills Survey 2013, was published. It is available at: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ukces-employer-skills-survey-2013 . Please note that because of the complexity of harmonising surveys from the four UK nations in 2011, the 2011 UK Employer Skills Survey presented results in several versions. Please see the data files for more information. In order to compare 2011 to 2013 results; the data tables comparable with UKCES Evidence Report No. 81 should be used due to a change in sampling strategy.