The variety and growing number of continuing training providers in France have led the government to question whether these bodies constitute full-fledged service producers functioning in a market situation. In the absence of quality standards and rules governing competition, many questions arise as to the ways it is to be implemented and developed. Such concerns led to a special survey of French training providers. The survey was based on a sampling of 645 training bodies and the activities they carried out in 1993. The qualitative data were collected through interviews with the heads of the institutions concerned, and the quantitative data were obtained through questionnaires. Some of the findings of the survey were as follows: (1) 33 percent of the training was provided by nonprofit organizations, 26 percent by public organizations, 18 percent by private organizations, 15 percent was company related, and 9 percent was semipublic; (2) the nonprofit and the private trainers were the fastest-growing segments of the training market; (3) the training market tends to be made up of small units with a relatively diversified training supply and a concern for enlarging their offering beyond an initial base of activities; (4) training providers tend to be specialized; (5) training providers can provide training related to personal development, to manufacturing and other fields at the baccalaureate level or higher, and to salaried employees--either at higher levels or without regard to levels; and (6) most training providers operate in a limited geographic area. (KC)