Note: Percentages exclude responses of “Don’t know”, “Not applicable”, “Prefer not to say” and “Prefer not to specify” and due to rounding, may not total 100. Total responses represent only those who answered the demographic question and are not adjusted for non‑response. The distribution of respondents by demographic characteristics is provided for reference purposes only and should never be used to determine the demographic composition of the federal public service. Suppression due to low respondent counts is indicated by the notation “Not applicable”.
Question 1. Through which program/process did you get your current student job?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP) |
57% |
| Post-Secondary CO-OP / Internship Program (CO-OP) |
36% |
| Research Affiliate Program (RAP) |
2% |
| Department-specific program/website |
2% |
| Other program |
3% |
| Total responses |
3,231 |
Question 4a. Was this your first student work term with your current team or work unit?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Yes |
59% |
| No |
41% |
| Total responses |
3,433 |
Question 4b. The interview process for my current student job was conducted:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| In person |
16% |
| Via telework (e.g., Microsoft Teams, telephone, etc.) |
81% |
| In person and via telework |
3% |
| Total responses |
1,990 |
Onboarding is the process of integrating new employees into the workplace, beginning with the acceptance of the initial job offer and continuing through the first weeks or months of employment. Onboarding includes training, mentoring and providing all pertinent information on internal policies, work processes and organizational culture.
Orientation is a critical component of the onboarding process and typically includes tangible learning activities, including courses and other activities that outline a department’s security policies, procedures, information systems, health and safety procedures, and welcoming events.
Question 5a. The onboarding for my current student job was conducted:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| In person |
61% |
| Via telework (e.g., Microsoft Teams, telephone, etc.) |
14% |
| In person and via telework |
26% |
| Total responses |
2,036 |
Question 15. Including your current student work term, how many student work terms have you completed within your current department or agency?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| 1 student work term |
50% |
| 2 student work terms |
20% |
| 3 student work terms |
11% |
| 4 student work terms |
9% |
| 5 or more student work terms |
10% |
| Total responses |
3,445 |
Question 16. (Derived) Including your current student work term, how many student work terms have you completed within the federal public service?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| 1 student work term |
47% |
| 2 student work terms |
23% |
| 3 student work terms |
15% |
| 4 student work terms |
13% |
| 5 or more student work terms |
3% |
| Total responses |
3,088 |
Question 17. Which of the following best describes your current work arrangement?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Working on-site at a Government of Canada location all of the time |
42% |
| Teleworking all of the time |
4% |
| Hybrid (i.e. any combination of telework and on-site work) |
54% |
| Total responses |
3,453 |
Question 18. In which province or territory are you currently working?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| National Capital Region (NCR) - Ottawa/Gatineau |
39% |
| Ontario (excluding NCR) |
17% |
| Québec (excluding NCR) |
11% |
| Northwest Territories |
Not applicable |
| Nunavut |
Not applicable |
| Yukon |
Not applicable |
| British Columbia |
6% |
| Alberta |
7% |
| Saskatchewan |
2% |
| Manitoba |
5% |
| New Brunswick |
4% |
| Nova Scotia |
3% |
| Prince Edward Island |
2% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
2% |
| Total responses |
3,453 |
Question 19. What is the main type of work you were doing in your department or agency?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Administrative Support / Procurement |
10% |
| Agriculture / Environment / Geography |
6% |
| Arts / Social Sciences |
1% |
| Business / Human Resources / Audit / Project Management |
5% |
| Client service / guide / visitor experience |
7% |
| Commerce / retail services / insurance |
Not applicable |
| Data / information management / information technology / tech support |
18% |
| Education |
1% |
| Enforcement / security / search and rescue |
3% |
| Engineering / Architecture |
4% |
| Environmental Services |
3% |
| Finance / accounting / tax / financial audit / collections |
5% |
| General labour and trades |
1% |
| Health care / social services |
1% |
| Law |
1% |
| Marketing / Communications / events / multimedia / interpreting |
3% |
| Outdoor Work |
3% |
| Policies / programs |
8% |
| Real property management |
1% |
| Research / analysis |
11% |
| Science / math |
3% |
| Supply chain management |
Not applicable |
| Translation and Editing |
0% |
| Transportation |
Not applicable |
| Other |
5% |
| Total responses |
3,391 |
Question 20. What is your current level of education?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| High School |
3% |
| CEGEP - Years 1&2 |
2% |
| CEGEP - Year 3 |
1% |
| College - Years 1&2 |
5% |
| College - Years 3&4 |
3% |
| Bachelor’s - Years 1&2 |
16% |
| Bachelor’s - Years 3&4 |
52% |
| Graduate diploma |
4% |
| Master’s |
12% |
| Doctorate |
2% |
| Professional certification |
1% |
| Other |
1% |
| Total responses |
3,459 |
Question 21. From the list below, please select the field of study that most closely matches your current field of study.
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Architecture and related services |
1% |
| Biology and biomedical sciences (which could include marine biology) |
11% |
| Business, management, marketing and related services (which could include accounting, finance, human resources, office administration and international affairs) |
12% |
| Chemistry |
2% |
| Child education and family studies |
Not applicable |
| Communication, journalism and related programs (which could include graphic and media design) |
2% |
| Computer and information sciences (which could include industrial design) |
9% |
| Criminology |
3% |
| Economics |
2% |
| Education |
2% |
| Engineering |
10% |
| Environmental studies (which could include urban planning) |
7% |
| General arts and sciences (which could include general studies, humanities, visual and performing arts and music) |
1% |
| Geography and Geology |
2% |
| Health professions and related programs (which could include medical programs, nursing, dental, veterinarian, residency programs, nutrition, pharmacy, kinesiology and epidemiology) |
3% |
| History (which could include Archaeology) |
2% |
| Information technology and support services |
3% |
| Law |
2% |
| Linguistics / language studies (which could include translation and literature) |
1% |
| Mathematics and Statistics |
2% |
| Other sciences (which could include forensic sciences, ocean science and data science) |
2% |
| Philosophy and religious studies |
Not applicable |
| Physics |
1% |
| Political Science |
6% |
| Psychology |
4% |
| Public Administration |
3% |
| Security, protective services and emergency management professions (which could include paramedics, 911 operators, search and rescue, border services and law enforcement) |
0% |
| Social sciences (which could include social work, gender studies, human rights and conflict studies) |
4% |
| Trades (which could include construction, general labour and other trades) |
0% |
| Other |
3% |
| Total responses |
3,439 |
Question 22. What is your first official language?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| English |
77% |
| French |
23% |
| Total responses |
3,458 |
Question 23. What is your age group?
| Demographic |
2025 |
| 19 years and under |
13% |
| 20 to 21 years |
36% |
| 22 to 23 years |
26% |
| 24 to 25 years |
10% |
| 26 to 27 years |
5% |
| 28 to 29 years |
3% |
| 30 years and over |
7% |
| Total responses |
3,456 |
Question 24. What is your gender?
Gender refers to a social and personal identity and may be different than a person’s biological sex.
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Woman |
61% |
| Man |
37% |
| Another gender |
1% |
| Total responses |
3,394 |
Question 25a. Are you a person with a disability?
A person with a disability is a person with any impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment – or a functional limitation – whether permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, or evident or not, that, in interaction with a barrier, hinders a person’s full and equal participation in society.
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Yes |
15% |
| No |
85% |
| Total responses |
3,283 |
Question 25b. For the purposes of this questionnaire, please only identify disabilities that have lasted or are expected to last six months or more.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Seeing disability: affects vision, including total blindness, partial sight and visual distortion. |
3% |
| Hearing disability: affects ability to hear, including being hard of hearing, deafness or acoustic distortion. |
4% |
| Speech or communication disability: affects ability to talk, including total speech loss, partial speech and speech distortion. |
Not applicable |
| Mobility disability: affects ability to move your body, including the required use of a wheelchair or a cane, or other issues impacting your mobility. |
8% |
| Flexibility disability: affects ability to move joints, to bend and to reach for things. |
4% |
| Dexterity disability: affects ability to perform fine motor tasks, especially with your hands. |
3% |
| Mental health-related disability: affects psychology or behaviour, such as anxiety, depression or social or compulsive disorder, or phobia or psychiatric illness. |
55% |
| Sensory or environmental disability: affects sensitivity to lights, sounds, smells or other elements in one’s environment, including allergens. |
16% |
| Chronic health condition: affects ability to function on a regular or episodic basis due to an ongoing health condition such as diabetes, Crohn’s disease, colitis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis. |
14% |
| Pain-related disability: affects ability to function on a regular or episodic basis due to pain. |
9% |
| Cognitive disability: affects ability to carry out tasks involving executive functioning, such as planning and organization. |
32% |
| Learning disability: affects the way a person receives, understands and uses information, such as dyslexia, dysgraphia and other learning disabilities. |
34% |
| Memory disability: affects a person’s ability to remember information. |
7% |
| Developmental disability (also known as intellectual disability): affects ability to learn and to adapt behaviour to different situations. |
6% |
| Another disability |
Not applicable |
| Total responses |
392 |
Question 26a. Do you identify as an Indigenous Person?
For the purposes of this questionnaire, the term “Indigenous” refers only to First Nations, Inuit or Métis Peoples.
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Yes |
6% |
| No |
94% |
| Total responses |
3,401 |
Question 26b. You indicated that you identify as an Indigenous person.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| First Nation |
Not applicable |
| Inuk (Inuit) |
Not applicable |
| Métis |
52% |
| Total responses |
187 |
Question 27. (Derived) Racialized
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Racialized |
39% |
| Non-racialized |
61% |
| Total responses |
3,292 |
Question 27. Which racial group(s) do you identify with?
Race is a term used to classify people into groups based principally on physical traits such as skin colour. Racial categories are not based on science or biology but on differences society has created, with significant consequences for people’s lives. Racial categories may vary over time and place and can overlap with ethnic, cultural or religious groups.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Black |
8% |
| East Asian (for example, Chinese, Japanese, Korean) |
9% |
| Southeast Asian (for example, Filipino, Indonesian, Vietnamese) |
4% |
| Latin American (for example, Brazilian, Guatemalan, Mexican) |
2% |
| Arab (for example, Lebanese, Saudi Arabian, Syrian) |
5% |
| South Asian (for example, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan) |
9% |
| West Asian (for example, Afghan, Iranian, Turkish) |
2% |
| White |
67% |
| Another identity |
2% |
| Total responses |
3,292 |
Question 28. Which ethnic origin(s) do you identify with?
Ethnic origin refers to the ethnic or cultural origins of a person’s ancestors. People who identify with similar ethnic origins (ethnic groups) tend to have a shared understanding of their ancestry or historical past, often with identifiable geographic, cultural, linguistic and/or religious characteristics.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Southern Africa (for example, Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa) |
0% |
| Western Africa (for example, Benin, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria) |
2% |
| Northern Africa (for example, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco) |
2% |
| Eastern Africa (for example, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania) |
2% |
| Central Africa (for example, Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon) |
1% |
| Africa – not otherwise specified |
Not applicable |
| Southern Asia (for example, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) |
8% |
| Western Asia and the Middle East (for example, Bahrain, Iran, Turkey, United Arab Emirates) |
4% |
| Eastern Asia (for example, China, Japan, Mongolia, South Korea) |
8% |
| South-eastern Asia (for example, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Viet Nam) |
4% |
| Central Asia (for example, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) |
Not applicable |
| Asia – not otherwise specified |
1% |
| Southern Europe (for example, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia) |
4% |
| Western Europe (for example, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland) |
14% |
| Northern Europe (for example, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom) |
16% |
| Eastern Europe (for example, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine) |
9% |
| Europe – not otherwise specified |
4% |
| South America (for example, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Venezuela) |
2% |
| North America (for example, Canada, the United States) |
43% |
| Central America (for example, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua) |
1% |
| Caribbean (for example, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) |
3% |
| South America, Central America or Caribbean – not otherwise specified |
0% |
| North America – not otherwise specified |
7% |
| Oceania (for example, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Polynesia) |
0% |
| Oceania – not otherwise specified |
Not applicable |
| Buddhist |
0% |
| Christian |
11% |
| Hindu |
1% |
| Jewish |
1% |
| Muslim |
4% |
| Sikh |
1% |
| Another identity |
1% |
| Total responses |
3,140 |
Question 29. Which religion(s) or belief system(s) do you identify with?
Religion or belief system identity refers to a person’s connection or affiliation with any religious denomination, group, body, or other religiously defined community or other system of belief – even if you are not currently a practicing member. Religion or belief system identity is not limited to formal membership in an organization or group.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Buddhism |
2% |
| Christianity |
38% |
| Hinduism |
3% |
| Indigenous spiritual tradition |
3% |
| Islam |
9% |
| Judaism |
1% |
| Sikhism |
2% |
| Secular belief system (for example, Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism) |
44% |
| Another identity |
3% |
| Total responses |
2,490 |
Question 30. (Derived) 2SLGBTQIA+
| Demographic |
2025 |
| 2SLGBTQIA+ |
26% |
| Not 2SLGBTQIA+ |
74% |
| Total responses |
2,859 |
Question 30a. What is your sexual orientation?
Sexual orientation refers to how a person describes their sexuality.
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Lesbian |
3% |
| Gay |
3% |
| Bisexual |
14% |
| Asexual |
3% |
| Pansexual |
3% |
| Heterosexual |
76% |
| Another sexual orientation |
1% |
| Total responses |
2,815 |
Question 30b. Do you identify with any of the following groups?
Select all that apply:
| Demographic |
2025 |
| Two-Spirit |
3% |
| Transgender |
11% |
| Queer |
63% |
| Questioning |
9% |
| Intersex |
4% |
| Another identity |
23% |
| Total responses |
462 |
