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Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a college or university credential - Canada
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Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor’s degree or higher - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)32.9%
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Percentage point change in adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor’s degree or higher - Canada
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Overqualification rate of immigrants aged 25 to 64 with a degree completed outside Canada - Canada
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Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with an apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma - Canada
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Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor's degree or higher - Canada
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Percentage of men aged 25 to 34 with an apprenticeship certificate - Canada
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Percentage of women aged 25 to 34 with a bachelor's degree or higher - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)40.7%
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- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400500002Description: Selecting immigrants with high levels of education increases their chances of economic success. Immigrants with a bachelor’s degree or higher are more adaptable to changes in the labour market and have steeper growth in employment earnings than those with a trades or high school education. However, many immigrants with a bachelor’s degree or higher have occupations that underutilize their skills, which can reduce their employment income, productivity and well-being. This article updates previously documented trends in education–occupation mismatch with census data from 2001 to 2021.Release date: 2024-05-22
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-0001Description: These reference guides are intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The guide provides an overview of the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), the general methodology used to create longitudinal indicators, and important technical information for users.Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0114-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of postsecondary graduates five years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - Cannabis primary groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada (cross-sectional analysis).Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0115-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of longitudinal cohorts of postsecondary graduates at two and five years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - Cannabis primary groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada.Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0122-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of postsecondary graduates two years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - Cannabis primary groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada (cross-sectional analysis).Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0156-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of postsecondary graduates five years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer sciences) and BHASE (business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education) groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada (cross-sectional analysis).Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0157-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of longitudinal cohorts of postsecondary graduates at two and five years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer sciences) and BHASE (business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education) groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada.Release date: 2024-04-17
- Table: 37-10-0158-01Geography: Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Characteristics and median employment income of postsecondary graduates two years after graduation, by educational qualification (Classification of programs and credentials - professional degree variant), field of study (Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016 - STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer sciences) and BHASE (business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education) groupings), gender, age group and status of student in Canada (cross-sectional analysis).Release date: 2024-04-17
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019031Description: This interactive tool details the median employment income earned by postsecondary graduates two and five years after obtaining their educational qualification.Release date: 2024-04-17
- Articles and reports: 37-20-00012024001Description: This guide is for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group, gender and status of student in Canada for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.Release date: 2024-04-17
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- Table: 98-10-0421-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Secondary (high) school diploma or equivalency certificate (15), Statistics (3), Gender (3), Age (15A), Labour force status (8), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Data on Indigenous populations with high school diploma or equivalency certificate, and combinations of high school and trades/college credentials, for cities.Release date: 2023-06-21
- Table: 98-10-0424-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Statistics (3), Gender (3), Age (15A), Labour force status (8), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Employment, unemployment and labour force participation rates of Indigenous populations by educational characteristics, for cities.Release date: 2023-06-21
- Table: 98-10-0428-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census division, Census subdivisionFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Highest certificate, diploma or degree (7), Statistics (3), Gender (3), Age (15A), Employment income statistics (7), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Employment income of Indigenous populations by educational characteristics, for census divisions and municipalities.Release date: 2023-06-21
- Table: 98-10-0402-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: STEM and BHASE groupings, Major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 (40), Statistics (3), Gender (3), Age (15A), Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Location of study (5), Occupation - STEM and non-STEM - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 (25A)Description: Number of people in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math and computer science) and BHASE (non-STEM) fields of study who worked in STEM, STEM-related or non-STEM occupations.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Table: 98-10-0403-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Occupation - Unit group - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 (821A), Age (4), Major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 (500), Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Gender (3), Statistics (6B)Description: Detailed occupational distribution by detailed field of study, with percentages.Release date: 2022-11-30
- 46. Occupation by major field of study (STEM and BHASE, detailed): Canada, provinces and territoriesTable: 98-10-0405-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Occupation - Unit group - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 (821A), Gender (3), Age (4), Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), STEM and BHASE groupings, Major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 (40), Statistics (6B)Description: Detailed occupational distribution, by STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math and computer science) and BHASE (non-STEM) fields of study, with percentages.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Table: 98-10-0412-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Occupation - Unit group - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 (821A), Gender (3), Age (4), Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 (63), Work activity during the reference year (4A), Employment income statistics (7)Description: Detailed labour market outcomes by educational characteristics, including detailed occupation, hours and weeks worked and employment income.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Table: 98-10-0420-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Secondary (high) school diploma or equivalency certificate (15), Age (15A), Gender (3), Labour force status (8), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Residence by Indigenous geography (10), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Data on Indigenous populations (including data on reserves and Inuit Nunangat) with high school diploma or equivalency certificate, and combinations of high school and trades/college credentials.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Table: 98-10-0423-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Gender (3), Age (15A), Major field of study - Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2021 (14), Labour force status (8), Registered or Treaty Indian status (3), Residence by Indigenous geography (10), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Employment, unemployment and labour force participation rates of Indigenous populations (including data on reserves and Inuit Nunangat) by educational characteristics, for Canada, provinces and territories.Release date: 2022-11-30
- Table: 98-10-0427-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census agglomeration, Census metropolitan area part, Census agglomeration partFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population aged 15 years and over in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Highest certificate, diploma or degree (16), Statistics (3), Gender (3), Age (15A), Employment income statistics (7), Work activity during the reference year (5), Income year (2), Indigenous identity (9)Description: Data on employment income (in 2019 and 2020) of Indigenous populations by educational characteristics, for cities.Release date: 2022-11-30
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- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023013Description: The infographic uses data from the integrated file of the Postsecondary Student Information System, the 2016 Census and the T1 Family File to compare the job quality of racialized graduates with a bachelor's degree with that of non-racialized and non-Indigenous graduates two years after graduation. Job quality indicators include employment income, unionization rate, and employer pension plan coverage rate.Release date: 2023-02-27
- Articles and reports: 75-006-X202300100001Description: Racialized Canadians are generally more likely than their non-racialized, non-Indigenous counterparts to pursue a university-level education. Despite this, their labour market outcomes are often less favourable. Using data from the integrated file of the Postsecondary Student Information System, the 2016 Census and the T1 Family File, this article compares the employment earnings, unionization rate and pension plan coverage rate of racialized graduates with a bachelor’s degree with those of non-racialized, non-Indigenous graduates, two years after graduation.Release date: 2023-01-18
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202301822647Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2023-01-18
- 14. A portrait of educational attainment and occupational outcomes among racialized populations in 2021Stats in brief: 98-200-X2021011Description: This Census in Brief article focuses on the education of racialized groups based on data from the 2021 Census of Population. It examines differences in educational attainment between and within racialized groups. The article also provides information on whether racialized populations found jobs that correspond to their education.Release date: 2023-01-18
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202233432994Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2022-11-30
- Articles and reports: 75-006-X202200100008Description:
This article provides a profile of the number and characteristics of college postgraduate credential students in Canada, as well as their outcomes, including graduation rates, rates of transition to permanent residency (for international students), and earnings after graduation.
Release date: 2022-09-12 - Articles and reports: 75-006-X202200100007Description:
This study uses 2019 data from the University and College Academic Staff System to examine gender differences in tenure status among faculty in Canadian universities. It also uses the Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and Researchers to examine feelings of fairness in hiring and promotions.
Release date: 2022-09-01 - Articles and reports: 37-20-00012022005Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined. This document has been updated to reflect the 2022 methodology used to produce labour market outcomes indicators.
Release date: 2022-07-19 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200500004Description:
Following high school graduation, some students decide to delay their postsecondary education (PSE). This raises the issue of the long-term implications of taking a gap year. The main question asked in this study is “Among high school graduates who eventually registered for postsecondary studies, how do the long-term labour market outcomes compare between those who took a gap year (i.e. attended PSE between 12 and 15 months after high school graduation) and those who followed a more linear path into PSE (i.e. attended PSE within three months of high school graduation)?” The analysis is based on data from the Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A (YITS-A) linked to the T1 Family File (T1FF) and takes into account differences in a very rich set of characteristics including academic performance, cognitive and non-cognitive ability, parental characteristics (presence, education, aspirations, education savings behaviour), peers, and high school fixed effects.
Release date: 2022-05-25 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200100005Description:
While a large literature has documented the substantial and persistent earnings losses often experienced by displaced workers, relatively little is known regarding the educational strategies that prime-aged displaced workers use to cope with job loss. Specifically, the extent to which Canadian laid-off workers undergo re-skilling, i.e. enter new fields of study after losing their job or simply upgrade their skills and remain within their initial fields of study is currently unknown. This study fills this information gap using data from the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS) in conjunction with Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker file (LWF) and the Census of Population of 2006.
Release date: 2022-01-26
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- 11. Youth in Transition Survey - Project Overview ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-588-XDescription:
The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is a longitudinal survey designed to provide policy-relevant information about school-work transitions and factors influencing pathways. YITS will provide vehicle for future research and analysis of major transitions in young people's lives, particularly those between education, training and work. Information obtained from, and research based on, the survey will help clarify the nature and causes of short and long-term challenges young people face in school-work transitions and support policy planning and decision making to help prevent or remedy these problems.
Objectives of the Youth in Transition Survey were developed after an extensive consultation with stakeholders with an interest in youth and school-work transitions. Content includes measurement of major transitions in young people's lives including virtually all formal educational experiences and most labour-market experiences. Factors influencing transitions are also included family background, school experiences, achievement, aspirations and expectations, and employment experiences.
The implementation plan encompasses a longitudinal survey for each of two age cohorts, to be surveyed every two years. Data from a cohort entering at age 15 will permit analysis of long-term school-work transition patterns. Data from a cohort entering at ages18-20 will provide more immediate, policy-relevant information on young adults in the labour market.
Cycle one for the cohort aged 15 will include information collected from youth, their parents, and school principals. The sample design is a school-based frame that allows the selection of schools, and then individuals within schools. This design will permit analysis of school effects, a research domain not currently addressed by other Statistics Canada surveys. Methods of data collection include a self-completed questionnaire for youth and school principals, a telephone interview with parents, and assessment of youth competency in reading, science and mathematics as using self-completed test booklets provided under the integration of YITS with the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). A pilot survey was conducted in April 1999 and the main survey took place in April-May 2000. Interviews were conducted with 30,000 students aged 15 from 1,000 schools in Canada. A telephone interview with parents of selected students took place in June 2000.
The sample design for the cohort aged 18-20 is similar to that of the Labour-Force survey. The method of data collection is computer-assisted telephone interviewing. The pilot survey was conducted in January 1999. In January-February 2000, 23, 000 youth participated in the main survey data collection.
Data from both cohorts is expected to be available in 2001. Following release of the first international report by the OECD/PISA project and the first national report, data will be publically available, permitting detailed exploration of content themes.
Release date: 2001-04-11 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89F0120XDescription:
Direct measures of skill attainment such as the International Adult Literacy Survey are used to assess the importance of educational outcome skills such as literacy in determining labour market outcomes such as earnings. Policy makers also use them to direct resources most efficiently. However, these skill measures are the product of complex statistical procedures. This paper examines the mathematical robustness of the International Adult Literacy Survey measures against other possibilities in estimating the impact of literacy on individual earnings.
Release date: 2000-06-02 - 13. A latent class model for the transition from school to working life in presence of missing data ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11-522-X19980015024Description:
A longitudinal study on a cohort of pupils in the secondary school has been conducted in an Italian region since 1986 in order to study the transition from school to working life. The information have been collected at every sweep by a mail questionnaire and, at the final sweep, by a face-to-face interview, where retrospective questions referring back to the whole observation period have been asked. The gross flows between different discrete states - still in the school system, in the labour force without a job, in the labour force with a job - may then be estimated both from prospective and retrospective data, and the recall effect may be evaluated. Moreover, the conditions observed by the two different techniques may be regarded as two indicators of the 'true' unobservable condition, thus leading to the specification and estimation of a latent class model. In this framework, a Markov chain hypothesis may be introduced and evaluated in order to estimate the transition probabilities between the states, once they are corrected or the classification errors. Since the information collected by mail show a given amount of missing data in terms of unit nonresponse, the 'missing' category is also introduced in the model specification.
Release date: 1999-10-22 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3126Description: This survey is designed to determine such factors as: labour market and mobility plans after graduation, how graduates funded their doctoral studies and how much, if any, debt they accumulated during their studies and the time required to complete a doctoral degree. In addition, information on educational history and socio-economic background is collected.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3156Description: The two primary objectives of the School Leavers Survey were 1. To develop comparative profiles of three groups of secondary school attendees a) those who successfully completed secondary school (graduates), b) those still attending (continuers), c) those who left school before receiving a diploma or certificate (leavers); and 2. To establish rates of leaving school before graduation, in Canada and the Provinces.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4435Description: The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is a longitudinal survey undertaken jointly by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. This survey is designed to examine the major transitions in the lives of youth, particularly between education, training and work.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4500Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. This survey monitored changes in education, work and retirement, and examined the relationships between these three main activities.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5012Description: The National Graduates Survey collects information from persons who graduated from public postsecondary educational institutions in 2015. The questions focus on academic path, funding for postsecondary education, including government-sponsored student loans, and transition into the labour market.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5058Description: The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is undertaken jointly by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. This survey is designed to examine the major transitions in the lives of youth, particularly between education, training and work.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5059Description: The Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) is undertaken jointly by Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. This survey is designed to examine the major transitions in the lives of youth, particularly between education, training and work.
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