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- Table: 37-10-0109-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of students in regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent schools, and home-schooling at the elementary-secondary level, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Table: 37-10-0111-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of graduates from regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent secondary schools, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100010Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Training participation indicator is the number of workers aged 25 to 64 who received job-related nonformal education and training in the last 12 months, expressed as a percentage of all workers in that age group.Release date: 2023-06-13
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200900002Description:
Experiencing a permanent layoff—a job loss without returning to the same employer during the same or subsequent year—can have significant and long-lasting impacts. One strategy to cope with job loss is to retrain. However, until recently, data limitations have prevented researchers from observing the detailed training activities of Canadians who have been permanently laid off. This study aims to address this gap by documenting the detailed postsecondary training decisions made by affected workers following job displacement.
Release date: 2022-09-28 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003Description:
Every year, thousands of Canadian workers lose their job. The opportunities for coping with job loss through postsecondary education (PSE) transitions might be unequally distributed across Canadian families, perhaps even more so than across Canadian workers. Using data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF), the T1 Family File (T1FF), the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS), and the 2006 Census of Population, this study quantifies the degree to which the likelihood of entering PSE or a new field of study after job loss varies, all else equal, across types of family units and, among dual-earner couples, with the earnings or the risk of job loss of the spouse.
Release date: 2022-06-22 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100013Description:
Among people who leave high school prior to completion, many return to formal schooling as adults. High school equivalency programs (such as a General Educational Development or Adult Basic Education program) give them the opportunity to go back and complete high school requirements. Using data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, this study examines the factors associated with upgrading and high school equivalency among the Aboriginal population living off reserve. It also examines whether high school equivalency or upgrading is associated with better educational and labour market outcomes.
Release date: 2019-09-19 - 7. Study: Upgrading and high school equivalency among the Indigenous population living off reserve ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201926220840Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-09-19
- 8. Study: Do layoffs increase transitions to postsecondary education among adults? 2001 to 2011 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201620114821Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2016-07-19
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20122776362Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2012-10-03
- 10. Job-related training of older workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X201200211652Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study investigates job-related training of Canadian employees age 55 to 64. Using the Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) and several cycles of the Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS), it compares the training of older and core-age workers and tracks changes in the incidence and correlates of training over time.
Release date: 2012-04-20
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- Table: 37-10-0109-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of students in regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent schools, and home-schooling at the elementary-secondary level, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Table: 37-10-0111-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of graduates from regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent secondary schools, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - 3. Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS), 2008 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF)Public use microdata: 81M0019XDescription:
The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) addresses issues relating to antecedents and determinants to access to Post Secondary Education (PSE). It provides an holistic approach to collecting information on participation in and financing of education and training in Canada within the context of lifelong learning.
The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) brings together three previously conducted surveys: The Survey of Approaches to Educational Planning (SAEP), the Post-secondary Education Participation Survey (PEPS) and the Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS).
Release date: 2010-09-03 - Public use microdata: 81M0013XDescription:
The Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) is Canada's most comprehensive source of data on individual participation in formal adult education and training. It is the only Canadian survey to collect detailed information about the skill development efforts of the entire adult Canadian population. The AETS provides information about the main subject of training activities, their provider, duration and the sources and types of support for training. Furthermore, the AETS allows for the examination of the socio-economic and demographic profiles of both training participants and non-participants. This survey also identifies barriers faced by individuals who wish to take some form of training but cannot. The AETS was administered three times during the 1990s, in 1992, 1994 and 1998, as a supplement to the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
The content of the AETS was revised to take into account recommendations coming from consultation exercises. As a result, more than half of the 2003 survey is made up of new questions and the target population has been modified.
The main objectives are:1) To measure the incidence and intensity of adults' participation in job-related formal training.2) To profile employer support to job-related formal training.3) To analyze the aspects of job-related training activities such as: training provider, expenses, financial support, motivations, outcomes and difficulties experienced while training.4) To identify the barriers preventing individuals from participating in the job-related formal training they want or need to take.5) To identify reasons explaining adults' lack of participation and of interest in job-related formal training.6) To relate adults' current participation patterns to their past involvement in and plans about future participation in job-related training.7) To measure the incidence and frequency of adults' participation in job-related informal training.8) To examine the interactions between participation in formal and informal job-related training.
The population covered by the AETS consists of Canadians 25 years of age and older. This is a change from the population previously targeted by the AETS, which consisted of Canadians aged 17 years of age and older. A primary consideration for this change was the practical difficulties in applying the definition of adult education to individuals in the 17 to 24 years of age group. By definition, adult education excludes students who are still involved in their first or initial stage of schooling. As previous AETS did not precisely identify students still in their initial stage of schooling, analyses using these data had to rely on an ad hoc definition of adult learners. According to this definition, individuals aged 17 to 24 who were not in one of the following situations were excluded from the analysis: full-time students subsidized by an employer and full-time students over 19 enrolled in elementary or secondary programs.
Release date: 2004-05-27 - 5. Adult Education Survey (1984) ArchivedPublic use microdata: 81M0009XDescription:
The Adult Education Survey (1984) measured the extent to which adult Canadians participated in courses to improve job skills, upgrade academic qualifications, for personal development or for recreation and leisure. The main objectives of the survey were: to measure the incidence of adult education/training in Canada; to provide a socio/economic/demographic profile of individuals who participate and do not participate in education/training.
Release date: 2000-06-02 - 6. Facing the future: Adults who go back to school ArchivedTable: 75-001-X19970033207Description:
Is there a relationship between participation in adult education and unemployment? This article looks at trends in adult education from 1976 to 1996, and examines who goes back to school, according to age, sex, education already attained and family situation.
Release date: 1997-09-10
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- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2006277Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The Participation in Adult Schooling and its Earnings Impact in Canada.
Based on a sample drawn from Statistics Canada's Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID: 1993 to 1998 and 1996 to 2001), the study finds that young (17 to 34 years old) and single workers were more likely than older (35 to 59 years old) and married and divorced workers to participate in adult schooling and to obtain a post-secondary certificate. Workers with less than a high school education who might have the greatest need to increase their human capital investment were less likely to participate in adult education than workers with high school or more education.
The study shows that male workers who obtained a post-secondary certificate while staying with the same employer generally registered higher wage and earnings gains than their counterparts who did not go back to school, regardless of age and initial level of education. On the other hand, men who obtained a certificate and switched jobs generally realized no significant return to their additional education, with the exception of young men (17 to 34 years old) who would receive significant returns to a certificate, whether they switched employer or stayed with the same employer.
Obtaining a certificate generated significant wage and earnings returns for older women (aged 35 to 59) who stayed with the same employer, and significant wage returns for young women who switched employers.
Release date: 2006-03-24 - 22. The Education Services Industry in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-595-M2005033Geography: CanadaDescription:
The private, for-profit Education Services sector plays a key role in developing the knowledge and skills of the Canadian labour force. As awareness of the importance of lifelong learning has increased, so has interest in the contribution of private, for-profit Education Services to increasing skills and knowledge, productivity, innovation and competitiveness.
Little statistical information, from either the supply or demand side of the Educational Services sector, is available in Canada. Several federal and provincial ministries, academic researchers and industry participants have expressed a need for more comprehensive statistical information on the sector. As the national statistical agency, Statistics Canada has an interest in filling these information needs.
This report provides an overview of the Education Services sector in Canada. Drawing on available sources of statistical information, it also looks at whether it is possible to shed light on the size and characteristics of the private, for-profit Education Services sector.
The study was funded by the Policy Research Initiative.
Release date: 2005-07-20 - Journals and periodicals: 89-603-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
"Learning a living: First results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey" presents new evidence on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries and how these gaps have evolved over the medium term.
The fundamental goal of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is to shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss. The survey is sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The report offers new insights into the factors that influence the formation and loss of adult skills in various settings - at home and at work - for the seven countries participating in the first round of data collection. The study offers the first comparative evidence on the impact of formal adult education and informal learning on the supply of skill. It also provides unique insight into the distribution of information and communication technology skills, and how these have amplified both productivity and wage inequality.
It is meant to assist decision makers in formulating policy in four areas:-Policies aimed at removing skill deficits that act as barriers to innovation, productivity and high rates of economic growth;-Policies designed to limit and reverse social exclusion and income inequality; -Policies that seek to reduce the unit cost of delivering public health care and education services;-Policies conceived to improve quality in all spheres, from public services to quality of life, individual fulfillment and happiness.
Release date: 2005-05-11 - Articles and reports: 11-622-M2005006Geography: CanadaDescription:
The growth in micro-technologies and their widespread diffusion across economic sectors have given rise to what is often described as a New Economy - an economy in which competitive prospects are closely aligned with the firm's innovation and technology practices, and its use of skilled workers. Training is one strategy that many firms undertake in order to improve the quality of their workforce.
This study contributes to the expanding body of research in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Using data on business sector workplaces from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), we investigate factors related to the incidence and intensity of training. The study focuses on whether training incidence and training intensity are more closely associated with the technological competencies of specific workplaces than with membership in ICT and science-based industry environments. The study finds that training incidence depends more on the technological competencies exhibited by individual workplaces. Among workplaces that decide to train, these technological competencies are also important determinants of the intensity of training.
Workplaces which score highly on our index of technological competency are over three times more likely to train than those that rank zero on the competency index. The size of the workplace is also a factor. Large and medium-sized workplaces are 3 and 2.3 times more likely to train than small workplaces, respectively. And workplaces with higher-skilled workforces are more likely to train than workplaces with lower-skilled workforces.
For workplaces that choose to train, their technological competency is the main determinant of training intensity. The size of the workplace, the average cost of training, and the skill level of the workforce are also influential factors'but to a lesser extent. Other factors, such as sector, outside sources of funding, and unionization status, are not influential factors in determining the intensity of training. Workplaces that have a higher average cost of training train fewer employees as a proportion of their workforce. However, the skill level of their employees moderates this effect, because as payroll-per-employee increases (a proxy for worker skills), plants train more.
Release date: 2005-01-25 - Articles and reports: 81-004-X20040057737Description:
Drawing on data from the 1997 and the 2003 Adult Education and Training Survey, this article compares participation in adult education and training in Canada, by gender, age and education.
Release date: 2004-12-14 - Articles and reports: 81-595-M2004015Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report focusses on the job-related training activities of the adult working population. It compares the demographics as well as training incidence, intensity and participation of two groups of working adults who took job-related training, in 1997 and in 2002.
Release date: 2004-04-30 - 27. Adult immigrants: how well are they trained? ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X20020036672Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report examines incidence and duration of training for immigrants and compares their circumstances with Canadians in general. It uses data from the Adult Education and Training Survey.
Release date: 2003-10-20 - Articles and reports: 81-595-M2003008Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report estimates the impact of participating in adult education and training on the employment and earnings of Canadians, using the data from the 1998 Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS).
Release date: 2003-10-15 - Articles and reports: 71-584-M2003005Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper studies the determinants of worker and workplace participation in training. It also present an analysis of the proportion of employees trained to evaluate the level of commitment of the employer to training.
Release date: 2003-05-06 - Articles and reports: 81-003-X20020016465Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article explores the effects of unions on the incidence of job-related training, as well as the role unions play in influencing who pays for job-related training.
Release date: 2003-02-17
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- 1. Statistics Canada's Definition and Classification of Postsecondary and Adult Education Providers in Canada ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2009071Geography: CanadaDescription:
This document outlines the definitions and the typology now used by Statistics Canada's Centre for Education Statistics to identify, classify and delineate the universities, colleges and other providers of postsecondary and adult education in Canada for which basic enrolments, graduates, professors and finance statistics are produced.
These new rigorous definitions were needed to capture the growing complexity of postsecondary education in Canada. They differentiate the various types of postsecondary institutions, address the blurring distinction between colleges and universities and handle the various forms of possible relationships between institutions.
The document brings closure to the extensive consultation that took place between January 2003 and the spring of 2007 as it summarizes the changes made following the 2004 paper entitled "A New Understanding of Post-secondary Education in Canada: A Discussion Paper".
Such an extensive consultation was deemed necessary to ensure that the typology is useful to the whole sector and that it allows comparisons between provinces and territories despite the significant differences of their respective postsecondary education systems.
Release date: 2009-01-16 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2003009Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines how the Canadian Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) can be used to study participation in and impacts of education and training activities for adults.
Release date: 2003-10-15 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-580-XDescription:
The adult education and training sector is as complex as it is dynamic. In order to describe all its facets, Statistics Canada surveys many different populations. Given the number of data sources and their conceptual and methodological differences, it is sometimes very difficult for researchers and decision makers to obtain required information or data. This guide is a tool that has been developed to assist them. It provides a summary description of all Statistics Canada surveys related to adult education and training. From a selected variable, it allows the identification of surveys that can provide information. It also indicates relevant publications and how to obtain additional information.
Release date: 1997-03-12 - 4. Recent information on training ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X199400137Geography: CanadaDescription:
An overview is presented of several surveys on training and education developed by Statistics Canada.
Release date: 1994-03-02 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3147Description: This discontinued survey collected data related to enrolment or registrations in continuing education programs or courses in Canadian Universities. The data were used by federal government departments of higher education as well as related association and individual researchers. The information was used for the analysis of the labour force supply, studies of the education system and the participation of special groups such as foreign students, language groups and women.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3879Description: The Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) is Canada's most comprehensive source of data on individual participation in formal adult education and training. It is the only Canadian survey to collect detailed information about the skill development efforts of the entire adult Canadian population.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4406Description: The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multi-cycle international program of assessment of adult skills and competencies initiated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It aims to collect the information of residents from several countries, including Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5075Description: This tool is designed to identify the universe of public and not-for-profit postsecondary and adult education institutions in Canada and their programs of study.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5151Description: The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey addresses issues relating to antecedents and determinants to access to Post Secondary Education (PSE), including the role of student financing and participation in adult education and training.
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