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Labour market and income data guide
December 2000
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Earnings Supplement Project

Description: The Earning Supplement Project is a federal project conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of the Human Resources Development Canada and managed by the Social Research Demonstration Corporation. It is a research demonstration project designed to determine the effectiveness of an earnings supplement incentive as a means of helping employment insurance claimants return to work. The survey evaluates the supplement's effect on employment rates, earnings, employment insurance receipt, duration of unemployment, and supplement's cost-effectiveness.

Who/what was surveyed: Participants enrolled in the Earnings Supplement Project in the selected centers of Employment Canada: Granby , Toronto, Oshawa, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon.

How the data were collected: Computer-assisted telephone interviews

Geographic detail: Granby, Toronto, Oshawa, Winnipeg and Saskatoon

Demographic detail: age, sex, language, ethnic origin

Information collected:

Age, sex, ethnicity, language, job search methods, earnings and income

Frequency: One-time only

Sample size: Approximately 8,500 persons

Reference period: 15 months after enrolment in the project

Release dates: May 1999

Response rates: 89%

What makes the data valuable: Allows an assessment of the impact of an earning supplement as an incentive to re-employ quickly the displaced workers

Products and services:

  1. Research paper released by Human Resources Development Canada, "Testing a Re-Employment Incentive for Displaced Workers: The Earnings Supplement Project".

Note: Since the survey was a demonstration project, the data only applies to the five cities selected for this project and the survey results can only be used to evaluate the impact of the initiative.

Responsible division: Special Surveys



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