Surveys about legal problems and needs are undertaken in countries around the world. In 2021, the Canadian Legal Problems Survey (CLPS) was conducted to identify the kinds of serious legal problems people face, how they attempted to resolve them, and how these experiences have impacted their lives. This survey was conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of the Department of Justice Canada and other federal departments. The CLPS is the latest legal needs survey conducted in Canada. Previously, the survey was conducted in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2014. A Series of Qualitative Studies on Serious Legal Problems To complement the CLPS, community-based researchers were contracted to conduct a series of qualitative studies to explore and report on the experiences of specific populations in different parts of Canada who have experienced a serious legal problem. The following reports provide an in-depth qualitative look at these problems and how the members of these groups dealt with them.

Surveys about legal problems and needs are undertaken in countries around the world. In 2021, the Canadian Legal Problems Survey (CLPS) was conducted to identify the kinds of serious legal problems people face, how they attempted to resolve them, and how these experiences have impacted their lives. This survey was conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of the Department of Justice Canada and other federal departments. The CLPS is the latest legal needs survey conducted in Canada. Previously, the survey was conducted in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2014. A Series of Qualitative Studies on Serious Legal Problems To complement the CLPS, community-based researchers were contracted to conduct a series of qualitative studies to explore and report on the experiences of specific populations in different parts of Canada who have experienced a serious legal problem. The following reports provide an in-depth qualitative look at these problems and how the members of these groups dealt with them.

The Legal Aid Survey was a Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)/Statistics Canada annual survey on revenues, expenditures, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the administration and delivery of legal aid in Canada. The Legal Aid Survey was first conducted in 1983-84 and data was last published in 2016 (for fiscal year 2014- 15). After the discontinuation of the Legal Aid Survey in 2016, the Department of Justice Canada (JUS) began data collection and reporting in-house. This is the second annual edition of this report.

This table contains 1120 series, with data for years 1997 - 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Household spending, miscellaneous (legal, financial) (20 items: Total miscellaneous expenditures; Expenses on other property owned; Legal services not related to dwellings; Financial services; ...); Statistics (4 items: Average expenditure; Percent of households reporting; Estimated number of households reporting; Median expenditure per household reporting).

This fact sheet is based on data from the 2021 Canadian Legal Problems Survey (CLPS) undertaken by Statistics Canada and commissioned by Justice Canada. The CLPS is a legal needs or legal problems survey; these surveys are done in countries around the world to measure the incidence of legal problems, how respondents attempt to resolve them, and the impacts of these problems. The CLPS reached people aged 18 years and older who could speak English or French. The final sample size was 21,170 people from 10 provinces and included an oversample of Indigenous people.

Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and unemployment rate, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), gender and age group.

During a survey carried out between April and June in 2019, some 34 percent of Canadian survey respondents stated that they would be more willing to publicly disclose whether they used cannabis now that it is legal. Contrastingly, 23 percent of respondents would not be more inclined to do so.

About the Apprenticeship Program

Apprenticeship is a model of learning that combines on-the-job and classroom-based training for employment in a skilled trade. To become an apprentice, an individual must be 16 years of age, have legal permission to work in Canada, meet the educational requirements for the chosen trade, and have a sponsor in Ontario who is willing to employ and train the individual during their apprenticeship. A sponsor is most often an employer, but can also be a union or trade association, and the sponsor must have access to the facilities, people, and equipment needed to train an individual in the trade. It takes between two and five years to complete an apprenticeship, and approximately 85 to 90 per cent of training takes place on-the-job. The remainder is spent in the classroom, which provides the theory to support the practical on-the-job training. The classroom component takes place at a Training Delivery Agent (TDA), which can be a college or a union training centre, and in most trades is undertaken for eight to twelve weeks at a time.

In Ontario the skilled trades are regulated by the Ontario College of Trades (OCoT), which includes setting training and certification standards for the skilled trades. At the outset of an apprenticeship the individual signs a training agreement with the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development (MLTSD) which outlines the conditions of the apprenticeship, and within 90 days of signing the agreement the apprentice must register with OCoT. At the conclusion of the apprenticeship the individual may be required to write a Certificate of Qualification (CoQ) exam to demonstrate his/her knowledge and competency related to the tasks involved with the practice of the trade.

About This Dataset

This dataset contains data on apprentices in Ontario for each calendar year from 2011 through 2015 inclusive, showing the number of registered apprentices by trade, gender, and registration status (new or returning), and the average age, outcomes, and duration of registration. The data is aggregated from the annual data report by the government of Ontario to the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), an annual national survey conducted by Statistics Canada and sponsored by Employment and Social Development Canada. This submission includes details on every apprentice registered in Ontario in the calendar year.

The purpose of the RAIS survey is to gather information on individuals who receive training and those who obtain certification within a trade where apprenticeship training is being offered. Each record in the survey is a registered apprentice or trade qualifier, and is collected by Statistics Canada through data requests to the provinces and territories, holders of the records for individuals in their jurisdiction. Further details of the survey are available on the website of Statistics Canada:

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The Legal Aid Survey was a Statistics Canada annual survey on revenues, expenditures, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the administration and delivery of legal aid in Canada. The Legal Aid Survey was first conducted in 1983–84 and data was last published in 2016 (for fiscal year 2014–15). After the discontinuation of the Legal Aid Survey in 2016, Justice Canada began data collection and reporting in–house. This is the fourth annual edition of this report.

The Legal Aid Survey was a Canada Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)/Statistics Canada annual survey on revenues. Expenditures, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the administration and delivery of legal aid in Canada. The Legal Aid Survey was first conducted in1983-84, and the data was last published in 2016 (for the fiscal year 2014-16). After the discontinuation of the Legal Aid Survey in 2016, the Department of Justice (JUS) began data collection and reporting in-house. This is the first legal aid annual report since the cancellation of the Legal Aid Survey. Data for 2015-16 is not available due to the change in approach to data collecting and reporting. In 2016-17, JUS, through its Legal Aid Program contributed more than $138 million to the provinces and territories for the delivery of criminal legal aid, civil legal aid, and I&R (immigration and refugee) legal aid (where applicable). This amounts to 16% of total legal aid revenues.

Quarterly final consumption expenditure for the household sector, in current and constant 2017 prices, Canada.

The Legal Aid Survey was a Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS)/Statistics Canada annual survey on revenues, expenditures, personnel, and caseload statistics associated with the administration and delivery of legal aid in Canada. The Legal Aid Survey was first conducted in 1983-84 and data was last published in 2016 (for fiscal year 2014-15). After the discontinuation of the Legal Aid Survey in 2016, the Department of Justice Canada (JUS) began data collection and reporting in-house. This is the third annual edition of this report.

For additional information and definitions related to the financial performance variables, refer to Financial and Taxation Statistics for Enterprises. For additional information and definitions related to the employment variable, refer to Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH). For additional information and definitions related to merchandise imports, refer to Canadian International Merchandise Trade (custom basis) program and the Trade by Importer Characteristics - Goods (TIC) program . For additional information and definitions related to merchandise domestic exports, refer to Canadian International Merchandise Trade (custom basis), and the Trade by Exporter Characteristics - Goods (TEC) program . For additional information and definitions related to trade in commercial services, refer to Canada's International Transactions in Services survey. Some of the foreign majority-owned affiliates in the Management of companies and enterprises sector (55) are not in a consolidated corporate structure, which can lead to double counting of certain financial balance sheet measures of affiliates operations, e.g. assets, liabilities and equity. Employment for the NAICS11 sector includes the following industries only: forestry and logging (113) and support activities to forestry (1153). The other industries within this sector are currently not available in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours. Intramural, or 'In-house R&D' refers to expenditures made within Canada for R&D performed on-site or within an organization's establishment. For additional information and definitions refer to Annual Survey of Research and Development in Canadian Industry (RDCI) . Personnel is measured in full-time equivalent (FTE). Full-time equivalent or a person-year is equal to number of persons who work solely on research and development projects and an estimate of time of persons working only part of their time on research and development. For additional information and definitions refer to Annual Survey of Research and Development in Canadian Industry (RDCI). These concern payments and receipts made by enterprises in respect of foreign purchases of patents (sale or licensing) and unpatented inventions, know-how, trademarks, designs and patterns, technical services, industrial R&D carried out abroad, and foreign sources of funds for intramural R&D projects. Two sources were used to compile Foreign Majority-Owned Canadian Affiliates foreign receipts and payments of technological services, Annual Survey of Research and Development in Canadian Industry (RDCI) and Canada's International Transactions in Services survey. Value added is at basic prices. It is measured for the corporate sector, which normally includes legally constituted corporations, cooperatives, limited liability partnerships, notional residential units and quasi-corporations. It is calculated using an income-based approach, summing compensation of employees, gross operating surplus, and indirect taxes less subsidies on production. It is a subset of national value added. For additional information and definitions related to the value added variable, refer to National Gross Domestic Product by Income and by Expenditure Accounts (IEA).

A survey conducted in North America among legal consumers in 2022 revealed that almost 53 percent of respondents consider slowness to respond was the most common deterrent to hiring an attorney. The cost of hiring a legal services provider also played a big role. Expensive legal fees were also indicated as one of the main deterrents by roughly 48 percent of respondents.

According to a survey carried out among beer drinking Canadians in May 2018, Québec City was the city where consumers were most likely to have drunk microbrews or craft beers within the last month - some 50 percent of respondents there had done so. Ottawa-Gatineau was the city with the second highest share of microbrew and craft beer drinkers at that time.

What are microbrews or craft beers?

Micro- and craft breweries are generally independently owned and produce smaller quantities of beer than their large-scale corporate counterparts. Also referring to the size of the establishment, the terms micro and craft also represent an alternative approach to flavors, experimentation and customer service within the beer industry. A brewery can be classified as so if it produces fewer than 1.8 million liters of beer annually.

The beer industry in Canada

In 2018, there were almost 1,000 licensed breweries across Canada, this equated to 3.4 breweries per every 100,000 legal drinking age adults. In the same year, around 22.08 million hectoliters of beer were sold in Canada.

Number of employees and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by provinces, territories and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.

Average hourly and weekly wage rate, and median hourly and weekly wage rate by National Occupational Classification (NOC), type of work, sex, and age group, last 5 months.

Number and percentage of persons being heavy drinkers, by age group and sex.

This statistic shows the monthly sales volume of imported beer in Canada from January 2015 to October 2019. Sales of imported beer amounted to approximately 265,530 hectoliters in October 2019, an increase from around 197,510 hectoliters the previous month.

Imported beer in Canada - additional information

Reportedly the most popular alcoholic beverage in Canada, a survey found that beer was consumed by almost 60 percent of respondents in 2015. Ahead of wine and spirits, the beer market was valued at approximately 11.72 billion Canadian dollars in 2014 and is forecasted to exceed 13 billion Canadian dollars in 2019.

Since 2008, the sales volume of beer in Canada has dropped from approximately 23.37 million hectoliters to 22.08 million hectoliters in 2018. Despite this trend, the sales volume of imported beer has steadily risen. In the 2018 fiscal year, imported beer generated approximately 3.49 billion Canadian dollars in sales, down from 3.62 billion Canadian dollars the previous year. Imported beer sales however, only make up a fraction of the market in Canada, with domestic beer making up most of the sales.

In 2018, around 74.6 liters of domestic and imported beer was consumed per capita by Canadians of legal age. French Canadian cities Quebec City and Montreal Franco were listed among those with the highest craft beer consumption.

Some 26 percent of Canadian consumers surveyed stated that they had consumed cannabis, or marijuana as it is otherwise known, the past year in 2024. This is a one percent decrease compared to 2022. Canada became only the second country worldwide to legalize the use of marijuana for recreational purposes in all of their provinces in 2018. How can cannabis be consumed? Cannabis can come in various forms, and with this comes different ways to consume the product. 83.2 percent of surveyed recreational cannabis users stated that they smoked the product. Smoking cannabis in handmade cigarettes utilizes the dried flower form of the product. With the recent legalization of the manufacturing and sale of e-cigarettes in Canada, it is likely that an increasing number of consumers will use vape pens to inhale this herbal form in the future. Cannabis can also be combined with food and drink products. Baked goods such as cookies and brownies are the type of cannabis edible most consumers are interested in trying. Cannabis regulation in Canada Regulation of the drug is not a straight forward topic, there has been issues keeping up with demand and not everyone agrees with the legalization of non-medical marijuana. As of October 2018, over half of Canadians approved of the legalization. There is also an ongoing debate on how cannabis should be regulated, if it should be treated more like alcohol or tobacco.