Skills Development: Vocational Education
in the Islamic Countries
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Table 3.14: Share workers with and without training by broad sectors:
Sector Male Female Total
Received any training? Received any training? Received any training?
Trained Not
trained
All Trained Not
trained
All Trained Not
trained
All
Agriculture forestry and
fishing
2.2 97.8 100.0 2.0 98.0 100.0 2.1 97.9 100.0
Mining and quarrying 6.0 94.0 100.0 8.6 91.4 100.0 6.2 93.8 100.0
Manufacturing 10.1 89.9 100.0 6.2 93.8 100.0 8.5 91.5 100.0
Electricity, gas, steam and
air conditioning supply.
30.9 69.1 100.0 43.7 56.3 100.0 32.4 67.6 100.0
Water supply, sewerage,
waste management and
remediation activities
14.3 85.7 100.0 37.2 62.8 100.0 17.4 82.6 100.0
Construction 7.5 92.5 100.0 6.0 94.0 100.0 7.3 92.7 100.0
Wholesale and retail
trade, repair of motor
vehicles
6.1 93.9 100.0 4.1 95.9 100.0 5.9 94.1 100.0
Transportation and
storage
18.8 81.2 100.0 16.0 84.0 100.0 18.7 81.3 100.0
Accommodation and food
service activities (Hotel
and restaurant)
3.0 97.0 100.0 5.6 94.4 100.0 3.4 96.6 100.0
Skilled service 33.2 66.8 100.0 35.5 64.5 100.0 33.5 66.5 100.0
Education and health 38.6 61.4 100.0 49.0 51.0 100.0 42.5 57.5 100.0
Others 17.1 82.9 100.0 10.3 89.7 100.0 13.4 86.6 100.0
Total 9.1 90.0 100.0 7.4 92.6 100.0 8.6 91.4 100.0
Although our study identified the lists of skills which are crucial, urgent and essential for the
graduates of TVET sectors in Bangladesh (See Page 71). However, the current study, BIDS (2017)
also identified few specific industrial areas inwhere skill shortage is boldly identified. Table3.15
shows the industrial area (seven industrial areas) in terms of their ranking in relation to
shortage of skills in Bangladesh. It is seen from Table 3.15 that leather good and footwear is
having the highest skill shortage in Bangladesh among the listed industries.
Table 3.15: Importance of skill shortage in different sub-sectors:
Sectors Rank
IT 5th
Light engineering 2nd
Ship building 5th
Leather goods and footwear 1st
Construction 2nd
RMG: Knit 1st
RMG: Woven 3rd