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Evaluations

Evaluation reports make recommendations intended to help the Government of Canada design and deliver programs and services that are accountable, focused on results, and meet the needs of Canadian citizens.

Income Security

2012
2011
2010
2005
  • February - Evaluation of the National Child Benefit (NCB) Initiative: Synthesis Report
2004
  • September - Evaluation of the Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPPD) Vocational Rehabilitation Program
2002
  • September - Formative Evaluation of Income Security Programs - Outreach
2001
  • March - Formative Evaluation of Income Security Programs - Outreach
  • May - Income Security Programs - Evaluation of Public and Private Financial Incentives for Retirement
  • May - Income Security Programs - Literature Review of Public and Private Financial Incentives for Retirement
  • May - Income Security Programs - The Interaction of Public Pensions and Retirement Decisions in Canada
  • May - Income Security Programs Analysis of Factors Influencing Planned and Actual Retirement Decisions
  • May - Income Security Programs Simulations of Incentive Effects of Private and Public Pensions
2000
  • November - Lessons Learned From Evaluation of Disability Policy and Programs
1999
  • January - Lessons Learned from Evaluation of Disability Policy and Programs
1997
  • May - Phase III Evaluation of Survivor Benefits and Other Features of Canada Pension Plan
  • August - Canada Pension Plan Disability Insurance Benefits and Labour Supply and Well-Being of Older Workers
1996
  • September - Evaluation of the Canada Pension Plan (Disability Component)
  • October - Evaluation of the National Vocational Rehabilitation Project
1995
  • July - Phase I of the Evaluation of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)

Labour

2011
2010
2008
  • May - Formative Evaluation of the International Trade and Labour Program
2005
  • January - Summative Evaluation of the Legislated Employment Equity Program (LEEP)
  • June - Summative Evaluation of the Labour Program Supplementary Funding
2004
  • July - Summative Evaluation of the Labour Management Partnerships Program: A Summary of Statistical and Qualitative Research Results
  • July - Summative Evaluation of the Labour Management Partnerships Program: A Summary of Statistical and Qualitative Research Results
2002
  • January - Evaluation of the Workers' Compensation Cost Recovery Program
  • April - Evaluation of the Federal Contractors Program
2000
  • January - A Study Concerning Federal Labour Standards: Balancing Work, Family and Learning in Canada's Federally Regulated Workplaces
1999
  • January - Innovative Workplaces: Lessons Learned
1998
  • March - Evaluation of the Labour-Management Partnerships Program (LMPP) - Final Report
  • March - Formative Evaluation of Manitoba's "Taking Charge!" - Final Report
  • April - Labour Market Information Strategic Initiatives Program (LMI) - Formative Evaluation - Saskatchewan
  • December - Evaluation of Federal Labour Standards (Phase II)
1997
  • May - Case Report Template and Interview Guide for the Innovative Workplace Lessons Learned
  • May - Overview of the Literature on Working Time and the Distribution of Work
  • May - Workplace Innovation in Europe: a Review of the Literature and Findings of Case Studies
  • May - An Impact Profile for Assessing Outcomes of Joint Workplace Change Initiatives
  • May - Options for Responding to Changes in Working time and Alternative Work Arrangements
  • July- Quebec Labour and Management Experiences with Workplace Innovation
  • July- Building a Joint Workplace Change Process
  • July- Lessons Learned - A Review of Older Worker Adjustment Programs Technical report #1
  • August- Evaluation of Federal Labour Standards (Phase I)

Labour Market Development Agreements

2012
2011
2009
  • September - Summative Evaluation of the Employment Benefits and Support Measures Delivered Under the Canada-Yukon Labour Market Development Agreement - PDF (393KB)
  • September - Summative Evaluation of the Employment Benefits and Support Measures Delivered Under the Canada-Northwest Territories Labour Market Development Agreement - PDF (1.5MB)
  • June - Summative Evaluation of Provincial Benefits and Measures Delivered under the Canada–New Brunswick Labour Market Development Agreement - PDF (980KB)
  • April - Summative Evaluation of the Canada-Alberta Labour Market Development Agreement - PDF (262KB)
  • March - Summative Evaluation of the Canada-Saskatchewan Labour Market Development Agreement - PDF (335KB)
2006
  • June - Summative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) Delivered Under the Canada/Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Market Development Agreement (LMDA)
2005
  • June - Formative and Summative Evaluation of Nunavut Benefits and Measures Delivered under the Canada-Nunavut Labour Market Development Agreement
2004
  • April - Formative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) Under the Terms of The Canada/British Columbia Labour Market Development Agreement (LMDA)
2001
  • June - Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador LMDA/EBSM Evaluation Evaluation of Support Measures
  • September - The Design of Summative Evaluations for the Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM)
  • December - Formative Evaluation of the Canada-Saskatchewan Labour Market Development Agreement
2000
  • March - Formative Evaluation of EI Part II Under the Canada/Prince Edward Island Labour Market Development Agreement
  • March - Formative Evaluation of the Canada/Manitoba Labour Market Development Agreement
  • June - Formative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures Delivered Under the Canada/Newfoundland LMDA - Phase 1 - Employment Benefits
  • June - Formative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures Delivered Under the Canada/Newfoundland LMDA - Phase 2 - Training Benefit
  • June - Formative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures Under the Terms of the Canada/Yukon Labour Market Development Agreement
  • September - Formative Evaluation of the Canada/Alberta Labour Market Development Agreement
  • September - Formative Evaluation of the Canada/Alberta Labour Market Development Agreement
1999
  • July - Formative Evaluation of Provincial Benefits and Measures under the Canada/New Brunswick Labour Market Development Agreement
  • December - Formative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures Under the Canada/Nova Scotia Labour Market Development Agreement

Learning

2011
  • June - Summative Evaluation of the Canada Student Loans Program - PDF (538KB)
2009
  • November - Formative Evaluation of the Additional Canada Education Savings Grant and Canada Learning Bond - PDF (422KB)
2004
  • October - Formative Evaluation of the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP)
2002
  • December - Summative Evaluation of the Office of Learning Technologies
1999
  • March - Evaluation Reports Formative Evaluation of Learning Initiatives
1998
  • April - Formative Evaluation - Work/Study Strategic Initiatives Program
  • August - Patterns of Workers Returning to School Over the Business Cycle
  • October - Evaluation of the Office of Learning Technologies
1997
  • October - Evaluation of the Canada Student Loans Program
1995
  • September - Process Evaluation Ready To Learn Project - Prince Edward Island

Service Canada

2011
2009
  • December - Evaluation of the Service Canada Community Offices Service Model - PDF (420KB)

Skills and Employment

2012
2011
2010
2009
  • December - Summative Evaluation of the Employment Insurance Premium Reduction Program - PDF (361KB)
  • October - Summative Evaluation of Employment Benefits and Support Measures in the Ontario Region - PDF (349KB)
  • August - Summative Evaluation of the Youth Employment Strategy - PDF (469KB)
  • July - Summative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreements - PDF (456KB)
  • June - Formative and Summative Evaluation of the Kativik Regional Government Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreement - PDF (1.06MB)
  • June - Summative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Program - PDF (333KB)
  • May - Formative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Program - PDF (329KB)
  • April - Evaluation of the Innu, Inuit and Métis Human Resources Development Strategy for the Voisey's Bay Project - PDF (1.11MB)
  • April - Evaluation of the Training Centre Infrastructure Fund (TCIF) - PDF (308KB)
  • April - Formative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreements - PDF (1.59MB)
2008
  • May - Summative Evaluation of the Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (OFPD)
2007
  • February - Formative Evaluation of the Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)
  • October - Interim Evaluation of the National Literacy Program (NLP)
2006
  • June - Summative Evaluation of EI Part I: A Summary of Evaluation Knowledge to Date
2005
  • January - Monitoring Studies Prepared for the 2003 EI Monitoring and Assessment Report to Parliament
  • January - Summative Evaluation of EI Parental Benefits
  • January - Summative Evaluation of HRSDC Labour Market Information Products and Services
  • April - Summative Evaluation of the Temporary Fisheries Income Program Initiative
  • April - Summative Evaluation of work sharing while learning and increased referrals to training
  • October - Summative Evaluation of the Learning Initiatives Program (LIP)
  • November - Formative Evaluation of the Youth Employment Strategy (YES)
  • November - Summative Evaluation on Pilot Project No. 5 (Preventative Withdrawal)
2004
  • February - Evaluation of the Work Sharing Program
  • May - Formative Evaluation of the Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) Support Fund
  • May - Youth Employment Strategy (YES) 1997-2002: Summary of Recent Summative Evaluation Results
  • September - Summative Evaluation of HRDC's Component of the Pacific Fisheries Adjustment and Restructuring Program
  • September - Summative Evaluation of the National Literacy Secretariat
  • December - Formative Evaluation of the Sectoral Partnerships Initiative (SPI)
  • December - Review of Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreements (AHRDA) - Synthesis of Findings
2003
  • April - To What Extent is Household Spending Reduced as a Result of Unemployment?
  • April - Training While Unemployed
  • April - Usage of Sickness Benefits
  • April - Has the Relationship Between Insured Employment Weeks and Entrance Requirements Been Changed by the Divisor?
  • May - Monitoring Report on EI Receipt by Reason for Job Separation
2002
  • June - Formative Evaluation of the International Academic Mobility Initiative
  • August - Promising Practices in Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities (EAPD) Funded Programs and Services
  • October - Gender Equality in the Labour Market
2001
  • July - Unemployment Insurance-Employment Insurance Transition: An Evaluation of the Pre-2001 Maternity and Parental Benefits Program in Canada
  • August - Summative Evaluation of the Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
  • September - An Evaluation of the EI Pilot Project on Small Weeks, 1998-2001
  • October - Lessons Learned Gender Equality in the Labour Market
  • November - An Evaluation Overview of Seasonal Employment
  • November - Did the Social Assistance Take-up Rate Change After EI Reform for Job Separators?
  • November - EI Reform and Multiple Job-Holding
  • November - The Impact of EI Reform on Gappers
  • November - The Use of Daycare by the Unemployed During the EI Reform Period
  • December - EI Reform and Seasonal Workers that Earn Less than $12,000
2000
  • February - Youth Employment Strategy: A Formative Evaluation of Youth Internship Canada and Other HRDC Youth Initiatives
  • March - Adult Literacy: Policies, Programs and Practices
  • March - Reconnecting Social Assistance Recipients to the Labour Market
  • October - An Assessment of Various Components of Bill C-12 on the Duration of Unemployment Spells
  • October - An Evaluation of the Impact of the 1997-1998 Small Weeks Projects on EI Program and Labour Market Outcomes
  • October - EI Impacts on Unemployment Durations and Benefit Receipt
  • October - The Effect of Bill C-12 on Weekly Hours of Work
  • October - The Impact of Bill C-12 on New Entrants and Re-Entrants
  • October - The Impact of Worker's Experience Rating on Unemployed Workers
  • November - The Effects of the Shift to an Hours-Based Entrance Requirement
  • November - The EI Family Supplement and Relative Income in Two-Earner Families with Children
  • November - The Impact of EI on Those Working Less than 15 Hours Per Week
  • November - The Impact of Employment Insurance on New-entrants and Re-entrant Workers
  • November - The Net Fiscal Incidence of the Employment Insurance Act on Full- versus Part-time Workers
1999
  • February - Interim Evaluation of Success Nova Scotia 2000 - Final Report
  • March - Aboriginal Social and Economic Development - Lessons Learned - summary report
  • March - Lessons Learned Background Report - Building Communities: Effective Practices in Aboriginal Communities (Published)
  • March - Lessons Learned Background Report - Lessons Learned on Employment, Labour Market, and Economic Development Policies, Programs, and Services for Aboriginal Peoples (Published)
  • March - Lessons Learned Building Communities: Effective Practices in Aboriginal Communities
  • March - Lessons Learned Employment, Labour Market and Economic Development Policies, Programs and Services for Aboriginal Peoples
  • March - National Synthesis of Mid-Term Review of Regional Bilateral Agreements
  • March - Older Worker Adjustment Programs Lessons Learned
  • March - Summative Evaluation of Career Services - Saskatchewan
  • March - Summative Evaluation of Labour Market Information - Saskatchewan
  • March - Summative Evaluation of Work/Study - Saskatchewan
  • April - Strategic Initiatives - Summative Evaluation of Manitoba's Taking Charge!
  • May - Summative Evaluation of the Community Skills Centres - British Columbia
  • June - Long-term Unemployment, Worker Profiling and Program Evaluation Issues
  • June - Summative Evaluation of the Assessment, Counselling and Referral - British Columbia
  • June - Summative Evaluation of the Labour Market Information - British Columbia
  • June - Long-term Unemployment, Worker Profiling and Program Evaluation Issues
  • August - Evaluation Reports Summative Evaluation of Youth Service Canada
  • November - AHRDA - Capacity Self-Assessment 1999
  • November - Lessons Learned - Reconnecting Social Assistance Recipients to the Labour Market
1998
  • February - Own-Account Self-Employment in Canada: Lessons Learned
  • February - Quick Response Training and Adjustment (QRTA) Strategic Initiatives Program - Summary Report - British Columbia
  • February - Western Aboriginal Development Alliance (WADA) - Formative Evaluation - Final Report - Alberta
  • March - Formative Evaluation of the Institute of Indigenous Government - British Columbia
  • March - Summative Evaluation of Ontario jobLink Resource Centres - Final Report
  • March - Summative Evaluation of the Graduate Employment/ Self-Employment Program - Newfoundland
  • April - Career Services - Strategic Initiatives Program - Formative Evaluation - Saskatchewan
  • May - Income and Living Standards During an Unemployment Spell
  • May - Lessons Learned Literature Review on Employment, Labour Market and Economic Development Policies, Programs and Services for Aboriginal Peoples
  • May - Long-term Employment Outcomes
  • May - Pre-Separation Job Durations and Unemployment Insurance Eligibility
  • May - Unemployment and Benefit Durations
  • June - Canada Saskatchewan Strategic Initiatives Program Formative Evaluation Overview
  • August - Do Labels Matter? Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Quits in Canada
  • August - Formative Evaluation of the Employment Benefits and Support Measures
  • September - Summative Evaluation of the Choice and Opportunity Project Strategic Initiatives
  • September - Lessons Learned - The Effectiveness of Labour Market and Social Programs for Unemployed Older Workers - Technical report #2
  • October - Evaluation of the Transitional Jobs Fund (Phase I)
  • November - Evaluation of the Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (Phase I)
  • December - Direct Job Creation Programs: Evaluation Lessons
  • December - Employment Insurance Appeals Pilot Evaluation Study
  • December - Integrated Training Centres for Youth (ITCY) - Alberta
1997
  • March - Community Skills Centres - Formative Evaluation - British Columbia
  • June - Effectiveness of Employment-Related Programs for Youth: Lessons Learned from Past Experience
  • September - Labour Market Information - Formative Evaluation - Final Report - British Columbia
  • November - Evaluation of the Summer Career Placements (SCP) Program
  • November - Final Evaluation Report on the Sectoral Partnership Initiative
1996
  • January - The Influence of Legislative Changes to Unemployment Insurance on the Economy, 1971-94 : a Full-System Simulation Study (a Non-Technical Summary)
  • February - Jobs and Labour Market Policy : A Strategic Scan of International Research
  • February - Students Work and Service Program (SWASP) - Final Report - Newfoundland and Labrador
  • February - The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance
  • March - Graduate Employment/Self-Employment Program (GESEP) - Formative Evaluation - Final Report - Newfoundland and Labrador
  • March - Strategic Employment Opportunities Program (SEOP) - Formative Evaluation - Final Report - Newfoundland and Labrador
  • June - Evaluation of The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy TAGS/HRDC - Formative Evaluation Report
  • June - Integrated Training Centres for Youth (ITCY) - A Process Evaluation - Final Report - Alberta
  • July - Choice and Opportunity - Formative Evaluation Phase I Final Report Prince Edward Island
  • September - Formative Evaluation of the Sectoral Partnership Initiative - Management Report
  • September - Ontario JobLink Resource Centres - Final Report
  • October - Final Evaluation Report on the Program for Older Worker Adjustment
  • November - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Employment-Related Programs and Services for Youth
  • November - New Brunswick Job Corps - Interim Impact and Interim Cost-Benefit/ Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation - Final Report
  • November - Success Nova Scotia 2000 - Process Evaluation - Final Report
  • December - A Review of Programs for Integrating Social Assistance Recipients into the Workforce
  • December - Investing in People - Year Two - Final Report - Northwest Territories
1995
  • January - Evaluation of the Self-Employment Assistance Program
  • March - Employer Responses to UI Experience Rating: Evidence from Canadian and American Establishments
  • March - Firms, Industries and Cross-subsidies: Patterns in the Distribution of UI Benefits and Taxes
  • March - Unemployment Insurance, Temporary Layoffs and Recall Expectations
  • May - Canada's Unemployment Insurance Program as an Economic Stabilizer
  • May - Employment Patterns and Unemployment Insurance
  • May - Qualifying for Unemployment Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of Canada
  • May - State Dependence and Unemployment Insurance
  • May - The U.S. Experience with Streamlining and Integrating UI Delivery Networks: An Evaluation Synthesis
  • May - The UI System as an Automatic Stabilizer in Canada
  • May - Unemployment Insurance and Employment Durations: Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Jobs
  • August - Effects of Benefit Rate Reduction and Changes in Entitlement (Bill C-113) on Unemployment, Job Search Behaviour and New Job Quality
  • August - Effects of Bill C-113 on UI Take-up Rates
  • August - Implications of Extending Unemployment Insurance Coverage to Self-Employment and Short Hours Work Week: A Micro-Simulation Approach
  • August - Income and Living Standards During Unemployment
  • August - Interprovincial Labour Mobility in Canada: The Role of Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance
  • August - Jobs Excluded from the Unemployment Insurance System in Canada: An Empirical Investigation
  • August - Studies of the Interaction of UI and Welfare Using the COEP Dataset
  • August - The Distributional Implications of Unemployment Insurance: A Micro-Simulation Analysis
  • August - Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Productivity
  • August - Unemployment Insurance and Labour Market Transitions
  • September - The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Wages, Search Intensity and the Probability of Re-employment
  • October - Nova Scotia Compass Program - Process Evaluation
  • October - Seasonal Employment and the Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance
  • November - Income Distributional Implications of Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance in the 1990s: A Micro-Simulation Approach
  • November - Investing In People - Year One - Final Report - Northwest Territories
  • December - Evaluation of the Employability Improvement Program
  • December - New Brunswick Job Corps - Process Evaluation - Final Report

Social Development

2012
2011
2010
  • September – Formative Evaluation New Horizons for Seniors Program Elder Abuse Awareness Component - PDF (333KB)
  • August – Summative Evaluation New Horizons for Seniors Program Community Participation and Leadership Component - PDF (466KB)
  • August – Formative Evaluation New Horizons for Seniors Program Capital Assistance Component - PDF (357KB)
2009
  • August – Voluntary Sector Initiative Impact Evaluation: Lessons Learned from the Voluntary Sector Initiative (2000-2005) - PDF (431KB)
  • July – Evaluation of the Homelessness Partnering Strategy - PDF (315KB)
  • June – Formative Evaluation of the Understanding the Early Years Initiative - PDF (374KB)
  • June – Summative Evaluation of the Social Development Partnerships Program - PDF (348KB)
  • June – Formative Evaluation of the New Horizons for Seniors Program - PDF (255KB)
2008
  • May - Summative Evaluation of the National Homelessness Initiative (NHI)
2004
  • March - The Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI) Process Evaluation
2003
  • March - Evaluation of the National Homelessness Initiative: Implementation and Early Outcomes of the HRDC-based Components
  • April - Evaluation of the National Homelessness Initiative: Implementation and Early Outcomes of the HRDC-based Components
2002
  • November - Evaluation of the Social Development Partnerships Program
2000
  • October - Impact of the Family Supplement
1999
  • January - Vancouver Child Care Regional Delivery Model - Pilot Project 1995-1999 - British Columbia
  • March - Child Care Registration: Licence-Not-Required Sector - Summative Evaluation - British Columbia
  • March - Rural Child Care Project Canada/British Columbia Strategic Initiative: Improved Access to Child Care - Summative Evaluation Report
  • March - Summative Evaluation - Supported Child Care
  • September - Canada/British Columbia Strategic Initiative: Improved Access to Child Care - Final Summative Evaluation Report
1997
  • May - Assessment, Counselling and Referral - Formative Evaluation Results - Final Report - British Columbia
  • September - B.C. Supported Child Care Program
  • October - Overview report: Formative Evaluation of the British Columbia Improved Access to Child Care Project
1996
  • October - National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
1995
  • September - Evaluation of The Child Care Initiatives Fund

Other

2011
2007
  • June - Evaluation of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF)
  • July - Evaluation of the Community Inclusion Initiative (CII)
2005
  • March - Evaluation of the Federal Grant Provided to the Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.
2004
  • March - An Evaluation of the Sectoral Involvement in Departmental Policy Development (SIDPD)
1999
  • March - User Guide on Contracting HRDC Evaluation Studies
1998
  • January - Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
  • June - Summary of Lessons from Formative Evaluations - Final Report
  • August - The Use of Social Indicators as Evaluation Instruments - Final Report
  • August - Social Indicators for the Strategic Evaluation of Major Social Programs
  • October - Monitoring Study of the Group Information Sessions
1997
  • August - Nova Scotia Compass - Summative Evaluation - Final Report