National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS)

Dataset Information
Name  National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS)
UUID  c6cf4ff1-d3a5-4042-97b8-a3bd33972d8d
Site  Statistics Canada - Research Data Centres
Region  Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan
Description  This new cycle of the National Apprenticeship Survey helps us to describe and better understand apprentices' pathways and experiences, including the motivations that bring people to the skilled trades, experiences with apprenticeship training, and labour market outcomes during and following an apprenticeship program. This information will contribute to ensuring that apprenticeship systems across Canada remain strong and are able to continue to support Canada's evolving economy.
Format  None
Purpose  There is a critical need in Canada for highly skilled tradespeople. Apprenticeships in trades are a major source of skilled workers for the Canadian economy. The National Apprenticeship Survey collects information to understand apprenticeship-related issues. This includes the factors that affect apprentices' completion and certification before, during and after their involvement with their apprenticeship. The specific objectives were to better understand: - pathways to apprenticeship and why people did not enter earlier, - apprenticeship program progression and completion, including barriers to both entry and completion, - experiences of select groups, such as women, Aboriginal people, immigrants, and persons with disabilities, and - the financing of apprenticeship training
Scope  This survey targets registered apprentices in the ten provinces and the three territories for two types (statuses) of apprentices and only for certain reference years. The two targeted statuses are completers and discontinuers. The target population was determined in two steps: at frame creation and at collection. First, there is the target population at the time of creation of the frame. The targeted completers and discontinuers are those who completed or discontinued their apprenticeship training between 2011 and 2013, and are not registered in any apprenticeship training as of December 31, 2013. Then, at time of collection, it was decided to keep in the target population those selected apprentices in the sample that said to have had some apprentice activities (i.e. completer or discontinuer) between 2010 and 2013. If they did not have any apprentice activities between these years, they were considered out-of-scope for this survey
Data Level  Individual
Collection Period  01/01/1989-12/31/1990;01/01/1994-12/31/1994;01/01/2007-12/31/2007;01/01/2015-12/31/2015
Last Updated 2023-11-28