Canadian Apprenticeship Registrations and Certifications
Data
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Additional information
Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS)
The Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS) is the foremost source of information on apprentices in Canada. On an annual basis, the RAIS produces cross-sectional statistics on registrations in apprenticeship programs and certifications in trades.
Reference Period
The reference period for the annual RAIS file is the calendar year.
Rounding
To protect the confidentiality of the population of interest, counts and amounts are randomly rounded.
Definitions
- Registered apprentices
- Individuals in a supervised work training program in a designated trade within their provincial or territorial jurisdiction. The apprentice must be registered with the appropriate governing body (usually a ministry of education or labour, or a trade-specific industry governing body) to complete the training.
- Already registered
- Number of registrations carried forward from the previous calendar year
- New Registrations
- Occur when individuals newly register in an apprenticeship training program during the reference period.
- Reinstatements
- Registrations by people who had left an apprenticeship program in a specific trade in a previous year and had returned to the same apprenticeship program during the reporting period.
- Certifications
- In order to work unsupervised in a number of trades in Canada, it is necessary to be a certified journey person. Requirements for obtaining such a designation vary widely across jurisdictions as well as across the trades themselves. In most instances, apprentices become certified journeypersons after completing such requirements as supervised on-the-job training, technical training as well as passing one or more examinations.
- Trade Qualifiers
- People who have worked in a specific trade for an extended period of time, without necessarily having ever been an apprentice, and who have received certification from a jurisdiction, usually done via a skills assessment examination in the trade.
- Red Seal Trades
- These programs have common standards to assess the skills of tradespersons across Canada in specific trades, referred to as the Red Seal trades. Tradespersons who pass examinations to meet the Red Seal standards receive a Red Seal endorsement on their provincial or territorial trade certificates.
How to use
How to use this application
This tool displays data on apprenticeship registrations and certifications. Click on the buttons at the top of the application to toggle between the “registration” analysis and the “certification” analysis.
The top section of the tool contains a series of filters to select the major trade groups, gender and registration type. You can also select a specific reference year on the bar chart entitled “Registration by year”.
Hovering over the map or the bar charts will generate tooltips that contain the underlying numbers or statistics.
It is possible to access the data from all visual elements by right clicking on the elements and selecting “Show data” or by accessing the Statistics Canada data tables (see data tables listed under “Data” above the application).
Use “control click” (“command” on mac) to select more than one visual element (example: multiple trade groups in selected years).
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Copyright
Published by authority of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada.
© His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Industry,
Use of this publication is governed by the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement.
Catalogue no. 71-607-X
Ottawa
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