Human Resources committee  More so than trying to project the number we'd get into. One of the challenges in measuring retirement is that it's a very subjective topic, even when you go to respondents. For example, I could speak to my father. He would tell me, “I'm retired”, because he did retire as soon a

Human Resources committee  Yes. There are two things: you can draw trends or you can get a really big snapshot, a big picture, at a point in time.

Human Resources committee  For example, on the data for the labour force survey—as I mentioned, we report monthly—we often see growth in the 55-plus population, and often about half of that is played from demographics. The baby boomers are coming to that age where they are now entering that age category, s

Human Resources committee  I'll start with the first one on the terms “older” and “mature” workers. I agree. I don't like the term, “older workers”. We've had discussions among ourselves, but it was the term that stuck. The reason we put it as “55-plus” when we're presenting it, is that we sometimes want t

Human Resources committee  Over the last four or five years, we have seen, with the labour force survey, an increase in the 55-plus population. We know that is in part because of employment growth, but we know it's also in part a demographic factor; people are just flipping into that age category. So it is

Human Resources committee  With the labour force survey, we don't specifically ask them about re-entering. They can come back in if they choose. For example, they may not be a part of the workforce in one month, but if they do re-enter, they would show up as becoming employed. We don't necessarily get the

Human Resources committee  We do have an employer survey, but we don't collect that type of information. We did have a project, which came to its natural end—I think it was in 2008—called the workplace employee survey that touched on that a little bit more, but we haven't done that since.

Human Resources committee  I'll have to go back and see what we have, if we can pull anything out.

Human Resources committee  We can't identify them in the labour force survey, no.

Human Resources committee  There are regional differences among primary industries, which include agriculture and aquaculture. If you look at Alberta, you can see that compared with other provinces they have a much lower unemployment rate for these selected occupation groups. I couldn't comment on whether

Human Resources committee  Well, I have just two comments on it. I guess one thing would be to note that these are occupation groupings, so I guess it would mean more in terms of what particular occupations you're in. Perhaps we're showing something different when we break it down than what we have here.

Human Resources committee  It's a monthly labour force survey, and this is an annual average for 2011.

Human Resources committee  We don't have it by skill set; we have it by industry.

Human Resources committee  We have to look to see whether that could be somehow derived. It's not something that's readily available. We'd have to look to see if there's some way of deriving it based on the embedded skills set in the occupation classification system.

Human Resources committee  Yes. We provide the information. There are occupational projection systems out there that are done by external analysts, government—HRSDC—but we don't necessarily do occupational projections. We have the data sources that feed into that.