Table D.1.1
Number of registered apprentices, Canada, provinces and territories, 1995, 2000 and 2005 to 2008

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Table D.1.1
Number of registered apprentices, Canada, provinces and territories, 1995, 2000 and 2005 to 2008
  Canada1 Newfound-
land and
Labrador2
Prince
Edward
Island3
Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec1,4 Ontario5 Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta6 British Columbia1 Yukon Northwest Territories7 Nunavut7
number
1995 163,374r 1,956r 411r 4,110 4,725 33,147r 61,869r 3,234r 4,593r 29,337r 19,197r 240 552r 0r
2000 199,074r 7,803r 444r 4,824r 4,329r 37,179r 66,675 5,343r 6,969r 43,428r 21,297r 288r 489r 0r
2005 293,838r 9,309r 636r 5,352r 4,227r 65,358r 102,189r 6,705 7,227r 60,957 30,996r 363r 399r 123r
2006 328,167r 7,806r 612r 5,400 4,386r 67,959r 112,185 7,251r 7,917r 73,494r 40,197r 426r 411r 132r
2007 358,557r 5,739r 864r 5,292r 4,548r 70,029r 120,192r 8,139r 9,081r 85,209r 48,417r 468r 405 177r
2008 390,705 5,910 741 5,778 4,953 73,134 132,627 9,273 10,599 93,399 53,103 513 453 219
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
r revised
1. Revisions to some provincial data (Quebec, 1991 through 2005, and British Columbia, 2005) have resulted in revisions to estimates at the Canada level.
2. Starting in 2003, a change occurred in the reporting of Newfoundland's information concerning newly registered apprentices and cancellations and suspensions.
3. Changes in Prince Edward Island's information system, starting with the reporting of 2005, may affect historical comparisons. At the end of 2006, the province made some adjustments and revisions to its database that account for the change in the carry-over of registered apprentices at the beginning of 2007. In 2007, an increase in new registrations was, to some extent, related to a demand for skilled workers outside of the province. In 2008, technical issues with the information system and reporting of data following the redesign of the Registered Appenticeship Information System survey caused a number of apprentices not to be reported.
4. In 2008, changes to the Emploi-Québec reporting decreased the number of registered apprentices. Reporting now includes non-construction, un-regulated voluntary trades, but still excludes the automotive trades.
5. A clean-up of inactive clients on the Ontario database at the end of 2006 may have caused differences in the carry-over totals of active apprentices from 2006 to 2007.
6. For 2008, Alberta incorrectly included the "Industrial warehousing" trade with the "Partsperson" and "Partsperson (material)" trades, and also excluded the "Construction craft worker" trade."
7. Nunavut was created on April 1, 1999. Prior to 2001, data for Nunavut were included with information from the Northwest Territories. This creates a break in series for the Northwest Territories before 2001.
Notes: In 2008, the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS) underwent a major survey redesign.
The number of registered apprentices includes those still registered from the previous year (apprentices who have not yet completed and have not withdrawn from training) plus apprentices newly registered during the current year.
To ensure the confidentiality of responses, all counts are randomly rounded to a multiple of 3. Since the total and subtotals are independently rounded, the total values may not match the sum of the individual values.
For a brief description of this indicator, including the methodology, please see the Handbook for the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program.
Source: Statistics Canada, Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), CANSIM Table 477-0053, Registered apprenticeship training, registrations, by age groups, sex and major trade groups, annual (number) (replacing CANSIM Table 477-0051, which has been terminated), published December 9, 2010.
Updated April 29, 2011.
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