A program participant is an individual who is active in an apprenticeship training program for a specific trade. To be included in the count, program participants must have a training agreement with a sponsor that is currently registered with the Ministry or was in a registered status within the last 12 months. Program participants currently without registered training agreements are usually between apprenticeship jobs or attending classroom training. 
A sponsor is responsible for an apprentice’s on-the-job training. Sponsors are typically employers, unions or local apprenticeship committees. Because one sponsor may sponsor apprentices in multiple trades, this column cannot be summed to arrive at the total number of unique apprenticeship sponsors. 
Training delivery agents (TDAs) are approved by the Ministry to deliver the classroom training component of apprenticeship programs. Because one TDA may deliver classroom training for multiple trades, this column cannot be summed to arrive at the total number of unique TDAs. 

Explanation of Dataset Column Headings:
TRADE SECTOR: Trades are grouped into four sectors: Construction, Industrial, Motive Power, and Service. 
REDSEAL = Red Seal certification in a trade means the holder can work in any province that participates in the Interprovincial Red Seal Program without further assessment or testing.
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS = Total number of apprenticeship program participants in the trade; where the number for of total participants is less than 20, the actual number is not displayed to protect the privacy of individual program participants.

MALE/FEMALE: Where the number for one of the genders is less than 20, actual numbers are not displayed to protect the privacy of individual program participants. Instead, the information will display as either “< 20” or “> 20”.

Column headings for the age cohort for participants:
•	AGE UNDER 20 = Under 20 years of age
•	AGE 20-29 = Between 20 and 29
•	AGE 30-44 = Between 30 and 44
•	AGE 45-54 = Between 45 and 54
•	AGE 55PLUS = Over 55 years of age

PUBLIC TDAS = Training delivery agents that are Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology; Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning

PRIVATE TDAS = Training delivery agents funded privately, including union-run training centres, private career colleges and employer-run training centres.