Approved and Denied Continuing Education Courses for Professional Licensing

Master List of all Approved and Denied Education courses maintained by Vermont's licensing authority. The dataset catalogs courses across various trades and professions, including details on providers, instructors, and course hours. It was last updated by data.vermont.gov in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze approval rates by Trade and Course Type to identify trends in credentialing requirements.
• Map provider locations using Company City, Company State, and Company Zip to assess geographic coverage of continuing education.
• Evaluate instructor credentials by linking Instructor names to multiple Course Titles and Hours across different companies.
• Build a directory of approved courses by filtering on Level and Code year for compliance verification by professionals.

Strengths

• Contains 16 distinct columns detailing course metadata and provider information.
• Includes both approved and denied course statuses for comparative analysis.
• Maintained by an official state government data portal (data.vermont.gov).

Limitations

• Sample data unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness and record count.
• Key metrics like total row count and temporal coverage (time_range) are unknown.
• Potential geographic bias limited to providers servicing Vermont, based on the publishing organization.

Provenance

Source

data.vermont.gov, the official open data portal for the State of Vermont.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from submissions to a state licensing or approval board, though exact method is unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, indicating regular maintenance.

Geography

Primarily Vermont, inferred from the publishing organization, though provider locations may vary.