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May 5, 2008
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Study finds apprenticeship completion rates range from 50 to 60 per cent
Apprentice completion rates for the 1993 apprenticeship cohort ranged between 50 and 60 per cent among the provinces of Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick according to Statistics Canada.
A StatsCan study examined the completion and discontinuation rates in apprenticeship programs for the 1993 cohort of newly registered apprentices over an 11-year period.
This follows a study released in 2005 by Statistics Canada that looked at the same issues for the 1992 cohort of newly registered apprentices.
The recently released study shows similar completion results for the two cohorts in the provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta. The completion rate was about 50 per cent in both New Brunswick and Ontario and it was close to 60 per cent in Alberta.
Within a given province, completion rates varied between groups of major trades and more significantly between single trades. Some trades posted completion rates twice the rates of other trades.
Industrial and mechanical trades often posted the highest completion rates, while building construction trades posted the lowest.
Of the 921 apprentices who started an apprenticeship program in 1993 in New Brunswick, 47 per cent had completed it after 11 years. Ninety per cent of these completions never interrupted their program and 93 per cent had completed in the trade in which they were registered in 1993.
Ontario had 9,023 apprentices who started in 1993 and 50 per cent had completed an apprenticeship trade program.
Of those, 95 per cent had never interrupted their program before completing it and 96 per cent had completed the trade program in which they were registered in 1993.
Among the 5,485 individuals who began an apprenticeship program in Alberta in 1993, 59 per cent had completed an apprenticeship trade program after 11 years.
Of these completions, 95 per cent had completed in the trade in which they had registered in 1993.
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