Assessing Apprenticeship Outcomes

What are the returns on training investment for individuals who complete an apprenticeship program in comparison to other postsecondary options? In addition to obvious financial benefits, what other benefits might be realized and how can they be measured? To find out answers to these questions and more, check out CAF-FCA’s Assessing Apprenticeship Outcomes: Building a Case for Pursuing and Completing an Apprenticeship report. This new resource is the follow-up study to the 2007 Apprenticeship Labour Market Outcomes in Canada since 2000 report that identified promising methods for assessing postsecondary outcomes, and in particular, apprenticeship.

Objectives:

• Provide solid, factual data demonstrating that apprenticeships lead to occupations offering good pay and personal satisfaction.
• Help fill in information gaps on apprenticeship outcomes at the national and jurisdictional levels by combining the findings of Statistics Canada’s 2008 National Apprenticeship Survey with other data from provincial/territorial studies.
• Produce high-quality and relevant research that promotes the apprenticeship training model as a viable and profitable post-secondary option.

The project relates to CAF-FCA’s 2004 foundation study in which stakeholders identified a “poor perception of the trades” and a “lack of information on the trades” as two of the most significant perceived barriers to accessing and completing apprenticeship training in Canada. Findings in CAF-FCA’s What’s Happening in Apprenticeship Now report confirms that stakeholders still consider these barriers to be of concern to the apprenticeship community.

For more information, please contact:
Danielle Matheusik,
Project Manager
613-235-4004 ext. 203 or danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org