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  • 1. Number of students in elementary and secondary schools, by school type and program type
    Table: 37-10-0109-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    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
  • 2. Number of graduates from secondary schools, by school type and program type
    Table: 37-10-0111-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    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. Training participation, 2022
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100010
    Description: 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
  • 4. Postsecondary education decisions following a permanent layoff
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200900002
    Description:

    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
  • 5. Entering postsecondary education after job loss: Family-level considerations
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003
    Description:

    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
  • 6. Upgrading and high school equivalency among the Indigenous population living off reserve
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100013
    Description:

    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 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201926220840
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-09-19
  • 8. Study: Do layoffs increase transitions to postsecondary education among adults? 2001 to 2011 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201620114821
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2016-07-19
  • 9. Study: Certification, completion, and the wages of registered apprentices 2007 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20122776362
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2012-10-03
  • 10. Job-related training of older workers Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X201200211652
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    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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  • 1. Number of students in elementary and secondary schools, by school type and program type
    Table: 37-10-0109-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    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
  • 2. Number of graduates from secondary schools, by school type and program type
    Table: 37-10-0111-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    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: 81M0019X
    Description:

    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
  • 4. Adult Education and Training Survey, Documentation and Data Files Archived
    Public use microdata: 81M0013X
    Description:

    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) Archived
    Public use microdata: 81M0009X
    Description:

    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 Archived
    Table: 75-001-X19970033207
    Description:

    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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Analysis (49) (40 to 50 of 49 results)

  • 41. Training as a Human Resource Strategy: The Response to Staff Shortages and Technological Change Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001154
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of manufacturing plants. It examines training that is introduced as a response to specific skill shortages versus training that is implemented in response to the introduction of advanced equipment.

    Advanced technology users are more likely to have workers in highly skilled occupations, to face greater shortages for these workers, and they are more likely to train workers in response to these shortages than are plants that do not use advanced technologies.

    The introduction of new techniques is also accompanied by differences in the incidence of training, with advanced technology users being more likely to introduce training programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In particular, innovating and non-innovating technology users diverge with regards to the extent and nature of training that is undertaken in response to the introduction of new advanced equipment. Innovators are more likely to provide training for this purpose and to prefer on-the-job training to other forms. Non-innovators are less likely to offer training under these circumstances and when they do, it is more likely to be done in a classroom, either off-site or at the firm.

    These findings emphasize that training occurs for more than one reason. Shortages related to insufficient supply provide one rational. But it is not here that innovative firms stand out. Rather they appear to respond differentially to the introduction of new equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills that are not so much occupation specific (though that is no doubt present) but general cognitive skills that come from operating in an innovative environment that involves improving the problem-solving capabilities of many in the workforce. These problem-solving capabilities occur in a learning-by-doing setting with hands on experience.

    Release date: 2001-04-04
  • 42. Learning on your own Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X20000045560
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article looks at informal or self-directed learning.

    Release date: 2001-03-12
  • 43. Employee Training: An International Perspective (Highlights) Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 89F0096X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    These highlights provide a brief summary of the report 'Employee training: an international perspective', the latest monograph released using data from the International Adult Literacy Survey. The report provides new insights into training issues in seven countries: Canada, the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Sweden. The study examines full-time paid workers between the ages of 25 and 60, who had been employed for at least 42 weeks in the 12 months preceding the survey (about nine months in the previous year). (Although the self-employed account for a growing share of the work force, they are not included in the analysis.)

    Release date: 1997-12-16
  • 44. Employee Training: An International Perspective Archived
    Articles and reports: 89-552-M1997002
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper examines full-time paid workers between the ages of 25 and 60 in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Sweden.

    Release date: 1997-12-12
  • 45. Job-related education and training - Who has access? Archived
    Articles and reports: 81-003-X19970013089
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article focuses on the incidence of job-related education and training among the population and among workers, differentiating whether or not the training activities were employer-supported. It also explores the likelihood of receiving job-related education and training in 1993 using two complementary statistical approaches: first, a direct reading of the distribution of participants in education and training compared with the distribution of the population, divided by major characteristics; and, second, the use of a statistical technique (logistic regression) that considers each characteristic while taking others into account. In the analysis, several characteristics were retained: four demographic characteristics (sex, age, educational attainment and province of residence) and seven labour market variables (labour market status, occupation, industry, job tenure, company size, total income and union status). (For the logistic regression analysis, all these variables were decomposed into a series of dichotomous variables).

    Release date: 1997-05-30
  • 46. Human Capital Development and Innovation: The Case of Training in Small and Medium Sized Firms Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995074
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study examines the characteristics of small and medium-sized firms that perform training. It uses data taken from a recent Statistics Canada survey that permit firms' training decisions to be analyzed within the broader context of their many activities and strategies.

    The study finds strong evidence for the hypothesis that human capital development facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related to the importance that a firm gives to research and development, the use of new technologies, and numerous other strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human-resource strategy. The results point to the inherent complementarity of technology and human resources policy.

    Release date: 1995-03-30
  • 47. A note on the self-initiated training of job-losers Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1994001163
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This note looks at the training courses and education programs undertaken by persons who have lost their jobs or been laid off.

    Release date: 1994-03-02
  • 48. Studying on the job Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1992002160
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using the results of the 1990 Adult Education and Training Survey, worker training is described in terms of the characteristics of paid workers who received part-time training from their employers, the industries they worked in, the jobs they held, and the subjects they studied.

    Release date: 1992-06-03
  • 49. Lifelong learning: Who goes back to school? Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X199100492
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Over twice as many adults were enrolled in credit courses in 1990 as in 1980. The author suggests a person's age, sex, occupation and labour force status are influential factors in returning to school.

    Release date: 1991-12-02
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Reference (9) ((9 results))

  • 1. Statistics Canada's Definition and Classification of Postsecondary and Adult Education Providers in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2009071
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    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
  • 2. Issues in the Design of Canada's Adult Education and Training Survey Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2003009
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    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
  • 3. Guide to Statistics Canada Information and Data Sources on Adult Education and Training Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-580-X
    Description:

    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 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X199400137
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    An overview is presented of several surveys on training and education developed by Statistics Canada.

    Release date: 1994-03-02
  • 5. Continuing Education Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3147
    Description: 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.
  • 6. Adult Education and Training Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3879
    Description: 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.
  • 7. Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4406
    Description: 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.
  • 8. Register of Postsecondary and Adult Education Institutions
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5075
    Description: 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.
  • 9. Access and Support to Education and Training Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5151
    Description: 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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