Job prospects Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Assistant in Northwest Territories

Explore current and future job prospects for people working as an "early childhood educator (ECE) assistant" in Northwest Territories or Canada.

Job opportunities in Northwest Territories

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be good for Early childhood educators and assistants (NOC 4214) in Northwest Territories for the 2022-2024 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• The number of early childhood educators and assistants is expected to grow in response to the Canada-wide early learning and child care plan, announced in the 2021 Federal Budget.
• In Northwest Territories, early childhood educators and assistants mainly work at daycare centres and family day homes.
• The Government of Northwest Territories aims to create 300 licensed early learning and child care spaces by 2025-2026 (Government of Northwest Territories 2021). This expansion will increase demand for early childhood educators and assistants in the territories.
• Local training is available. Aurora College offers an early learning and childcare diploma.

Here are some key facts about Early childhood educators and assistants in Northwest Territories:

• Approximately 200 people worked in this occupation in May 2016.
• Early childhood educators and assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Health care and social services (NAICS 62): 82%
  • Educational services (NAICS 61): 16%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 74% compared to 86% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 26% compared to 14% for all occupations
• 44% of early childhood educators and assistants work all year, while 56% work only part of the year, compared to 64% and 36% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 28 weeks compared to 26 weeks for all occupations.
• 9% of early childhood educators and assistants are self-employed compared to an average of 6% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 7% compared to 53% for all occupations
  • Women: 93% compared to 47% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 24% compared to 20% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 22% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 8% compared to 11% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 28% compared to 24% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 12% compared to 16% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 7% for all occupations

Labour market conditions over the next 10 years

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