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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.

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