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- Table: 37-10-0109-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of students in regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent schools, and home-schooling at the elementary-secondary level, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Table: 37-10-0111-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of graduates from regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent secondary schools, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100010Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Training participation indicator is the number of workers aged 25 to 64 who received job-related nonformal education and training in the last 12 months, expressed as a percentage of all workers in that age group.Release date: 2023-06-13
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200900002Description:
Experiencing a permanent layoff—a job loss without returning to the same employer during the same or subsequent year—can have significant and long-lasting impacts. One strategy to cope with job loss is to retrain. However, until recently, data limitations have prevented researchers from observing the detailed training activities of Canadians who have been permanently laid off. This study aims to address this gap by documenting the detailed postsecondary training decisions made by affected workers following job displacement.
Release date: 2022-09-28 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003Description:
Every year, thousands of Canadian workers lose their job. The opportunities for coping with job loss through postsecondary education (PSE) transitions might be unequally distributed across Canadian families, perhaps even more so than across Canadian workers. Using data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF), the T1 Family File (T1FF), the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS), and the 2006 Census of Population, this study quantifies the degree to which the likelihood of entering PSE or a new field of study after job loss varies, all else equal, across types of family units and, among dual-earner couples, with the earnings or the risk of job loss of the spouse.
Release date: 2022-06-22 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100013Description:
Among people who leave high school prior to completion, many return to formal schooling as adults. High school equivalency programs (such as a General Educational Development or Adult Basic Education program) give them the opportunity to go back and complete high school requirements. Using data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, this study examines the factors associated with upgrading and high school equivalency among the Aboriginal population living off reserve. It also examines whether high school equivalency or upgrading is associated with better educational and labour market outcomes.
Release date: 2019-09-19 - 7. Study: Upgrading and high school equivalency among the Indigenous population living off reserve ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201926220840Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-09-19
- 8. Study: Do layoffs increase transitions to postsecondary education among adults? 2001 to 2011 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201620114821Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2016-07-19
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20122776362Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2012-10-03
- 10. Job-related training of older workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X201200211652Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study investigates job-related training of Canadian employees age 55 to 64. Using the Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) and several cycles of the Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS), it compares the training of older and core-age workers and tracks changes in the incidence and correlates of training over time.
Release date: 2012-04-20
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- Table: 37-10-0109-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of students in regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent schools, and home-schooling at the elementary-secondary level, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - Table: 37-10-0111-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
The number of graduates from regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults in public and private/independent secondary schools, by school type and program type.
Release date: 2023-10-12 - 3. Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS), 2008 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF)Public use microdata: 81M0019XDescription:
The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) addresses issues relating to antecedents and determinants to access to Post Secondary Education (PSE). It provides an holistic approach to collecting information on participation in and financing of education and training in Canada within the context of lifelong learning.
The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) brings together three previously conducted surveys: The Survey of Approaches to Educational Planning (SAEP), the Post-secondary Education Participation Survey (PEPS) and the Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS).
Release date: 2010-09-03 - Public use microdata: 81M0013XDescription:
The Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) is Canada's most comprehensive source of data on individual participation in formal adult education and training. It is the only Canadian survey to collect detailed information about the skill development efforts of the entire adult Canadian population. The AETS provides information about the main subject of training activities, their provider, duration and the sources and types of support for training. Furthermore, the AETS allows for the examination of the socio-economic and demographic profiles of both training participants and non-participants. This survey also identifies barriers faced by individuals who wish to take some form of training but cannot. The AETS was administered three times during the 1990s, in 1992, 1994 and 1998, as a supplement to the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
The content of the AETS was revised to take into account recommendations coming from consultation exercises. As a result, more than half of the 2003 survey is made up of new questions and the target population has been modified.
The main objectives are:1) To measure the incidence and intensity of adults' participation in job-related formal training.2) To profile employer support to job-related formal training.3) To analyze the aspects of job-related training activities such as: training provider, expenses, financial support, motivations, outcomes and difficulties experienced while training.4) To identify the barriers preventing individuals from participating in the job-related formal training they want or need to take.5) To identify reasons explaining adults' lack of participation and of interest in job-related formal training.6) To relate adults' current participation patterns to their past involvement in and plans about future participation in job-related training.7) To measure the incidence and frequency of adults' participation in job-related informal training.8) To examine the interactions between participation in formal and informal job-related training.
The population covered by the AETS consists of Canadians 25 years of age and older. This is a change from the population previously targeted by the AETS, which consisted of Canadians aged 17 years of age and older. A primary consideration for this change was the practical difficulties in applying the definition of adult education to individuals in the 17 to 24 years of age group. By definition, adult education excludes students who are still involved in their first or initial stage of schooling. As previous AETS did not precisely identify students still in their initial stage of schooling, analyses using these data had to rely on an ad hoc definition of adult learners. According to this definition, individuals aged 17 to 24 who were not in one of the following situations were excluded from the analysis: full-time students subsidized by an employer and full-time students over 19 enrolled in elementary or secondary programs.
Release date: 2004-05-27 - 5. Adult Education Survey (1984) ArchivedPublic use microdata: 81M0009XDescription:
The Adult Education Survey (1984) measured the extent to which adult Canadians participated in courses to improve job skills, upgrade academic qualifications, for personal development or for recreation and leisure. The main objectives of the survey were: to measure the incidence of adult education/training in Canada; to provide a socio/economic/demographic profile of individuals who participate and do not participate in education/training.
Release date: 2000-06-02 - 6. Facing the future: Adults who go back to school ArchivedTable: 75-001-X19970033207Description:
Is there a relationship between participation in adult education and unemployment? This article looks at trends in adult education from 1976 to 1996, and examines who goes back to school, according to age, sex, education already attained and family situation.
Release date: 1997-09-10
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- Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100010Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Training participation indicator is the number of workers aged 25 to 64 who received job-related nonformal education and training in the last 12 months, expressed as a percentage of all workers in that age group.Release date: 2023-06-13
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200900002Description:
Experiencing a permanent layoff—a job loss without returning to the same employer during the same or subsequent year—can have significant and long-lasting impacts. One strategy to cope with job loss is to retrain. However, until recently, data limitations have prevented researchers from observing the detailed training activities of Canadians who have been permanently laid off. This study aims to address this gap by documenting the detailed postsecondary training decisions made by affected workers following job displacement.
Release date: 2022-09-28 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003Description:
Every year, thousands of Canadian workers lose their job. The opportunities for coping with job loss through postsecondary education (PSE) transitions might be unequally distributed across Canadian families, perhaps even more so than across Canadian workers. Using data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF), the T1 Family File (T1FF), the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS), and the 2006 Census of Population, this study quantifies the degree to which the likelihood of entering PSE or a new field of study after job loss varies, all else equal, across types of family units and, among dual-earner couples, with the earnings or the risk of job loss of the spouse.
Release date: 2022-06-22 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X201900100013Description:
Among people who leave high school prior to completion, many return to formal schooling as adults. High school equivalency programs (such as a General Educational Development or Adult Basic Education program) give them the opportunity to go back and complete high school requirements. Using data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, this study examines the factors associated with upgrading and high school equivalency among the Aboriginal population living off reserve. It also examines whether high school equivalency or upgrading is associated with better educational and labour market outcomes.
Release date: 2019-09-19 - 5. Study: Upgrading and high school equivalency among the Indigenous population living off reserve ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201926220840Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2019-09-19
- 6. Study: Do layoffs increase transitions to postsecondary education among adults? 2001 to 2011 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201620114821Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2016-07-19
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20122776362Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2012-10-03
- 8. Job-related training of older workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X201200211652Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study investigates job-related training of Canadian employees age 55 to 64. Using the Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS) and several cycles of the Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS), it compares the training of older and core-age workers and tracks changes in the incidence and correlates of training over time.
Release date: 2012-04-20 - Journals and periodicals: 89-604-XDescription:
Literacy for Life, is the second report from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. It presents additional results on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries and how these gaps have evolved over the medium term.
It offers new insights into the factors that influence the formation of adult skills in various settings - at home and at work - for the eleven countries participating in the first and last round of data collection between 2003 and 2008. The study offers comparative evidence on the impact of various factors on the supply of skill. The study offers a special focus on numeracy skills and problem solving skills. It explores the relationships between numeracy and key socio-demographic factors as well as labour market outcomes and earnings.
It highlights the importance of problem solving skills by defining this foundational skill and by exploring its determinants as well as its relative role in influencing important labour market outcomes.
The report offers also an analysis of performance across multiple skill domains. It investigates the skill profiles of various population groups defined in terms of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of those who score at levels deemed to be low in one or more skill domains and explores the resulting consequences.
The report concludes by investigating the issue of skill mismatch in the labour market and its relationship to adult learning. The extent and distribution of mismatch between the day to day literacy related requirements of workers and the literacy skills they have obtained is an important issue that is being explored in this study.
Release date: 2011-12-20 - 10. A glance at the participation of adult workers in formal, job-related training activities or education in 2008 ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-004-X201100211493Description:
According to the 2008 Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS), nearly 8 million adults between the ages of 25 and 64 took part in formal training activities or education between July 2007 and June 2008, and most of them did so for career- or job-related reasons. This article examines the participation of adult workers in formal, job-related training activities or education. The participation rates of adult workers are analyzed in relation to their demographic characteristics, occupation, employer characteristics, training objectives and learning obstacles.
Release date: 2011-06-27
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- 1. Statistics Canada's Definition and Classification of Postsecondary and Adult Education Providers in Canada ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2009071Geography: CanadaDescription:
This document outlines the definitions and the typology now used by Statistics Canada's Centre for Education Statistics to identify, classify and delineate the universities, colleges and other providers of postsecondary and adult education in Canada for which basic enrolments, graduates, professors and finance statistics are produced.
These new rigorous definitions were needed to capture the growing complexity of postsecondary education in Canada. They differentiate the various types of postsecondary institutions, address the blurring distinction between colleges and universities and handle the various forms of possible relationships between institutions.
The document brings closure to the extensive consultation that took place between January 2003 and the spring of 2007 as it summarizes the changes made following the 2004 paper entitled "A New Understanding of Post-secondary Education in Canada: A Discussion Paper".
Such an extensive consultation was deemed necessary to ensure that the typology is useful to the whole sector and that it allows comparisons between provinces and territories despite the significant differences of their respective postsecondary education systems.
Release date: 2009-01-16 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-595-M2003009Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper examines how the Canadian Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) can be used to study participation in and impacts of education and training activities for adults.
Release date: 2003-10-15 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-580-XDescription:
The adult education and training sector is as complex as it is dynamic. In order to describe all its facets, Statistics Canada surveys many different populations. Given the number of data sources and their conceptual and methodological differences, it is sometimes very difficult for researchers and decision makers to obtain required information or data. This guide is a tool that has been developed to assist them. It provides a summary description of all Statistics Canada surveys related to adult education and training. From a selected variable, it allows the identification of surveys that can provide information. It also indicates relevant publications and how to obtain additional information.
Release date: 1997-03-12 - 4. Recent information on training ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X199400137Geography: CanadaDescription:
An overview is presented of several surveys on training and education developed by Statistics Canada.
Release date: 1994-03-02 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3147Description: This discontinued survey collected data related to enrolment or registrations in continuing education programs or courses in Canadian Universities. The data were used by federal government departments of higher education as well as related association and individual researchers. The information was used for the analysis of the labour force supply, studies of the education system and the participation of special groups such as foreign students, language groups and women.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3879Description: The Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) is Canada's most comprehensive source of data on individual participation in formal adult education and training. It is the only Canadian survey to collect detailed information about the skill development efforts of the entire adult Canadian population.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4406Description: The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multi-cycle international program of assessment of adult skills and competencies initiated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It aims to collect the information of residents from several countries, including Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5075Description: This tool is designed to identify the universe of public and not-for-profit postsecondary and adult education institutions in Canada and their programs of study.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5151Description: The Access and Support to Education and Training Survey addresses issues relating to antecedents and determinants to access to Post Secondary Education (PSE), including the role of student financing and participation in adult education and training.
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