facts and STATS

Stats for 2008 (the calendar year)

• 50 designated trades and 9 designated occupations
• 9,051 individuals certified in the designated trades and occupations
• 22,668 new apprentices registered
• 70,415 registered apprentices as of December 2008
• More than 1,500 technical training classes were offered.
• Approximately 750 employers and employees were involved in a network of over 160 local and provincial apprenticeship committees and occupational committees. All committees are composed of equal numbers of employers and employees.
• More than 1,800 high school students were registered in the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP).
• Over 3,100 apprentices who started in RAP are currently continuing in a regular apprenticeship program.
• A total of 707 scholarships (or $709,500) were awarded to apprentices in 2008, an increase of 93 scholarships from the previous year. Applicants in the registered apprenticeship program (RAP) category received 425 scholarships, while 282 went to apprentices in the Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT) category.
• The employment rate for apprentice graduates in the labour force is 100%, based on the results of the 2007 graduate survey.
• most common age of Alberta apprentices registered for the first time is 19
  

  
  
  Source: Alberta Advanced Education
  * Age at date of registration
  ** The 19,664 total in the chart above includes only individuals registering in their first trade in Alberta in 2008. This number differs from the total number of new apprentices registered (22,668) as presented in Table 4. The number of new apprentices registered includes those who are returning to do an additional apprenticeship after completing one or more apprenticeship programs in previous years.
  
  Mean - defined as the sum of the ages of all apprentices divided by the total number of apprentices involved, i.e., average age.
  Median - defined as the middle age category with an equal number of apprentices younger and older than this group.
  Mode - defined as the largest age category or most frequent age of apprentices.
  

• In 2008, 35% of apprentices were trained on employer sites with 10 or fewer tradespeople; and 23% in firms with more than 100 tradespeople.

For more detailed information, see the Board's Annual Reports