Pay Equity committee  We do know there that tends to be generational mobility. From one generation, then, the next generation tends to be economically more mobile, especially in certain populations, but I haven't seen a study looking specifically at what you're looking at.

Pay Equity committee  Definitely. We do have that information. I just wasn't aware of any studies. For instance, we do have information on the wage gap by province. Quebec and Ontario were mentioned. In Quebec, for instance, between 1997 and 2015 the gender wage gap was 84%, and in 1997 it went up to

Pay Equity committee  As you know, Statistics Canada is not a policy department. Our role is to provide data that will help you to illuminate your discussion. When people come to us and they want to understand what is happening in the labour market, we just provide the data that would help them unders

Pay Equity committee  We can send you some of the papers that Marie has written on some of that.

Pay Equity committee  The information we were providing today would include overtime but not bonuses. We don't have that information.

Pay Equity committee  To answer the second question, I'm not aware of any studies that have looked at the two provinces that have put in pay equity to see if there are differences.

Pay Equity committee  It's definitely true that the world of work is changing. Our monthly labour force survey does collect information, so you can look at the wages of people in those different types of jobs, based on the characteristics of the job, to see if there is a difference. We haven't seen an

Pay Equity committee  You'll notice in the presentation that there are some references to papers already done by Marie, who has looked at things across Canada. Marie, are you able to answer?

Pay Equity committee  Yes, I'm on the summary page, so it works out well for once. The goal of this presentation was to highlight that gender wage inequality is complex and that it requires analysis from a number of different perspectives. The narrowing of the wage gap since the late 1980s is due to

Pay Equity committee  Good afternoon. First I want to remind everybody that today is Census Day. We're all very happy at StatsCan today. I want to remind everybody to check your mailboxes. I also want to thank you for the opportunity to present to the Special Committee on Pay Equity. Our presentation

Status of Women committee  If they have a skilled trade or a registered apprenticeship, that wouldn't be included in there.

Status of Women committee  They would have given that as a field, but that would be a separate question when they talk about this specific.... They basically have said that their highest level of education was a college diploma, certificate, or degree.

Status of Women committee  When did that program come into—

Status of Women committee  There is an annual registered apprenticeship information system. We get data from that system, and you would have that coming in. That is separate from this, but it's administrative data that Statistics Canada has and produces information on—

Status of Women committee  Yes.