The final report on "Mapping of VET graduate tracking measures in EU Member States" conducted by the EU Commission on Mapping of VET graduate tracking measures in EU Member States has been published on 16 March 2018 at European Commission's DG for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion web-page. The study involves mapping and description of VET graduate tracking measures at EU and Member State level, and the development of scenarios for EU-level actions in the field. You can find the abstract below. 

The systematic review and renewal of Vocational Education and Training (VET) is crucial to ensuring its continued quality and labour-market relevance. A better understanding of the performance of VET graduates in the labour market is one of the key sources for assessing and improving the quality and labour market relevance of VET, alongside forecasts of skills supply and demand. VET graduate tracking measures can provide this information to stakeholders. This study of such measures currently used in Member States finds that some countries do not have measures, others do not have regular measures and that many measures use either administrative data or survey data. Survey data often relies on convenience samples and small sample sizes which limit their use. There are good examples of measures which combine data and track cohorts of VET graduates over several years to measure educational and employment outcomes. The Commission could provide support or incentives to the creation or further development of good quality measures at national, regional or provider level.

This study has four specific objectives:
Objective 1: Mapping of VET graduate tracking measures used at system level accompanied by illustrative examples at provider level;
Objective 2: Analysis of graduate VET tracking measures and development of their typology;
Objective 3: Identification of strengths and weaknesses of these measures and definition of recommendations for issues to be improved at Member State and EU levels;
Objective 4: Review of options for EU activities in this field to improve data collection systems both at national and EU level.

The study is available on the link.