Table 11.

Canada Manpower Training Programs
Institutional and Industrial Trainees
(various years - female)

1971 1973 1975 1977
         
Institutional Trainees
 Total full-time enrolment 226,753 193,144 175,596 179,241
   (% female) 25.6% 35.9% 32.7% 31.9%
         
  Skill training 25.4 34.3 37.8 38.4
    (% female)        
         
   Language training 46.0 51.0 52.3 55.5
    (%female)
         
  BTSD        
   (% female) 34.6 51.4 53.8 55.2
         
  Apprenticeship 3.8 3.1 2.2 2.8
   (% female)
         
         
 Industrial Trainees
  Total 75.500 43,104 61,386 69,698
   % female 28.8% 28.8% 26.4% 28.3%
         
         
 Labour force statistics      
 Participation rates (female) 36.5% 38.7% 40.9% 45.9%
         
 Unemployment rates (female) 5.1 5.1 6.4 9.5
         
 % of labour force which is female 32.8 34.0 36.7 37.8
         
 % of unemployed which are female 26.1 30.8 31.8 44.1
         
 Immigration statistics
       
 % of immigrants who were female 51.1% 48.6% 51.4% 53.2%
  (15 years and over)    



Sources:

Manpower and Imigration, Annual Report 75-76 (Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1977)

   
 

CEIC, Program Analysis Division, Employment Training Branch, Unpublished statistics, PAD 78-135 and 78-144.

   
 

Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey Division, Labour force statistics, various years. (Ottawa: Statistics Canada)

   
 

A.L. Robb & B. G. Spencer, "Education: Enrolment and attainment" in G. C. A. Cook (Ed.),Opportunity for choice (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976).



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