Endnotes

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1. Prasil, Sandrine, Registered Apprentices: The Class of 1992, a Decade Later, catalogue 81-595-MIE, Statistics Canada.

2. Some modifications to the data were required to prepare the linkage, especially in the case of multiple records for a same individual. In some cases, other variables were added to link the data.

3. The exclusion of those apprentices created a slight difference between the number of new registered apprentices in 1993 included in this study and the published numbers.

4. Three provinces share a common information system (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Manitoba) but each of the data elements of that system is not necessarily populated the same way.

5. Tables A.5, A.10 and A.15, are on the certified apprentices. For the 1992 cohort, the database included information on the apprentices who left the program and returned to receive a certificate as tradespersons. Those persons were among the discontinuers but not among the completers, they were counted among the certified. In the 1993 cohort database, no information on the certification of those people was included and therefore Tables A.5, A.10 and A.15 include about the same numbers of certified and completers.

6. Actually 6% of the 1993 cohort of apprentices was still registered in 2003. This additional 3% are those who registered in a new program after having completed one or who came back to a program after an interruption.

7. The major trade groups are those that Statistics Canada has been using for data dissemination on apprentices.

8. In New Brunswick, the miscellaneous group «other trades» had too few apprentices to do any calculation.

9.The total proportion who returned is the sum of the columns «one temporary interruption» and «multiple interruptions» in Table A.3.1.

10. In fact, 12% of the apprentices who started an apprenticeship program in 1993 in Ontario were still registered in 2003 if we include those who previously completed another program or interrupted a program during the 11-year period (Table A.9 in the appendix). This proportion is twice that found for New Brunswick.

11. Four percent of the entire 1993 cohort were still registered in 2003, but these were apprentices who had returned to a program after completing or discontinuing a program previously (Tables A.4 in the appendix).

12. The higher rate of return to an apprenticeship program for Alberta in comparison with the rates for Ontario and for New Brunswick may be explained by a more systematic verification of discontinuity in that province.