Toward a labour force strategy for Canada's voluntary & non-profit sector : Vers un stratégie de la main'd'oeuvre pour le secteur bénévole et communautaire au Canada: résultats de sondages pancanadiens auprès des employeurs et des employés: rapport no. 2

The scope of the surveys corresponds to the HR Council’s Labour Force Study.1 The Study and the surveys cover most of the “core non-profit sector” as it is defined in Statistics Canada’s Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institu- tions and Volunteering,2 except that they do not include organizations in the category “professional associations, trade unions and cooperatives.” Quasi-gov- ernment organiz [...] The Survey of Employees strategies for provides new statistical information about the demographic characteristics of the sector the people who work in the sector and examines some key aspects of the work they do. [...] Toward a labour force sTraTegy for canada’s volunTary & non-profiT secTor - survey findings |. 7 2 survey design and Methodology The intent of general information about the surveys both the survey The HR Council for the Voluntary & Non-profit Sector commissioned Ipsos of employers Reid to conduct both the Survey of Employers and the Survey of Employees. [...] The weights are proportionate to the population HR Council’s Labour Force Study and the role of of employers in the sector in each region, organiza- the survey in the study, and to invite the individual tion size and activity category. [...] The weights are proportionate to the distributions of employees in the sector in each region, organiza- survey of employees tion size and activity category in the 2003 National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations3 The target population for the Survey of Employees (Figure 2).