A Portrait of Work-Related Learning in Quebec

Table 4.1
Participation rates in ALT, by type and approach, in Canada and Quebec in 2002 (total population 25 years of age and older)
	Structured work-related ALT	Structured ALT for personal interest	Informal work-related learning	Work-related ALT (structured and informal)	Overall rate of ALT
Source: Statistics Canada (2003), taken from Bélanger, Doray and Levesque (2007).
^a Difference Quebec - other provinces statistically significant to the threshold of 0.01.
Atlantic	24	7^a	43	48	50
Quebec	22^a	13^a	45^a	50^a	55^a
Ontario	25^a	8^a	50^a	54^a	56
Prairies	28^a	9^a	49	54^a	57
British Columbia	28^a	12	49	54	57
Total	25^a	10^a	48	53	56
	N=25,056	N=25,042	N=24,636	N=24,705	N=24,721

Table 4.2
Participation rates in work-related ALT^* in Canada and Quebec in 2002 (employed population 25 years of age and older)^{Footnote 50}
	Structured ALT only	Structured ALT and informal learning	Informal learning only	Total work-related ALT
Source: Statistics Canada (2003), taken from Bélanger, Doray and Levesque (2007).
^a Difference Quebec — other provinces statistically significant to the threshold of 0.01.
^* To obtain the rate for structured ALT, add the "structured only" and the "structured and informal" columns. To obtain the rate for informal learning, add the "informal only" and "structured and informal" columns.
Atlantic	7	31	33	71
Quebec	6	27^a	34	67^a
Ontario	5	29	36	70
Prairies	6	31^a	33	70
British Columbia	6	33^a	35	74^a
Total	6	30^a	35	70^a

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^{Return to note 50} The lack of correspondence between the data in Tables 4.1 and 4.2 is not surprising, since they do not involve the same populations (total as against employed). Thus, the data in the tables in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 cannot be compared for similar reasons.