Canada-wide Analysis of Official Language Training Needs in the Area of Justice
Technical Report: Analysis of Socio-Professional Data

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2.0 Methodology

This needs analysis deals mainly with the fields under federal jurisdiction, with an emphasis on the Criminal Code, although many statements found in the analysis have a more general application. And in fact, the four areas of focus retained in the Roadmap cover such groups as legal auxiliaries and students who could work in fields of either federal or provincial jurisdiction. The needs analysis addresses each of the four areas of focus of the Roadmap, including the coordination mechanism best able to support the effective implementation of this component. The methodology used for the purposes of this study include: literature review, document review, analysis of socio-professional data taken from the Census, interviews with key stakeholders across the country and field based case studies in four provinces and territories, followed-up by a panel of experts.

This technical report specifically addresses our analysis of the socio-professional data, using data from the 2006 Census carried out by Statistics Canada. The goal of the study is to chart the linguistic profile of careers injustice services and their development. We used two series of data:

• The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) gave us an idea of the environment in which Canadians work. In particular, series 5411 covers "legal services" and includes law firms, notary offices (in Quebec only), and series 91 covers public administrations including tribunals, correctional services and police services, whether federal, provincial or municipal.
• The National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) gave us an idea of what people do. Series B317 covers court officers and justices of the peace (administrator, registrar, justice of the peace, officer), series B543 covers court clerks, series E011 covers judges, series E012 covers lawyers and series G611 covers police officers.

This report first presents (section 3.0) the data analyzed by legal services occupations retained using NOC-S 2006.² For each occupation retained, we provide a short description followed by an analysis of the data for all of Canada and for each province and territory using linguistic variables, age, level of education and industry. The next section (4.0) provides a comparative analysis of occupations for Quebec and Canada (except Quebec), and according to age distribution. Note that tables compiling the data, not by occupation but by province and territory, are included in the appendix.

2. Statistics Canada,National Occupational Classification for Statistics 2006. Ottawa, 2007.

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