Education, training and learning

Description: Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

Description: Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time international undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time international graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

Description: Weighted average tuition fees for full-time Canadian and international undergraduate and graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average additional compulsory fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate and graduate students. These fees apply to all Canadian students, regardless of the field of study. Typically, they include fees for athletics, student health services and student associations. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate students by selected standard geographic areas and by field of study. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition and additional compulsory fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate and graduate students. Additional compulsory fees apply to all Canadian students, regardless of the field of study. Typically, they include fees for athletics, student health services and student associations. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

Description: Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

Description: Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time international undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time international graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

Description: Weighted average tuition fees for full-time Canadian and international undergraduate and graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average additional compulsory fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate and graduate students. These fees apply to all Canadian students, regardless of the field of study. Typically, they include fees for athletics, student health services and student associations. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate students by selected standard geographic areas and by field of study. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition and additional compulsory fees for full-time Canadian undergraduate and graduate students. Additional compulsory fees apply to all Canadian students, regardless of the field of study. Typically, they include fees for athletics, student health services and student associations. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian undergraduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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Weighted average tuition fees by field of study for full-time Canadian graduate students. Data are collected from all publicly funded Canadian degree-granting institutions.

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This comparative study investigates the role of family background characteristics in postsecondary access in Canada and the United States. Given that postsecondary schooling is funded very differently in the two countries, family background may play substantively different roles. The findings suggest that university-going is less common among lower-income students and members of a visible minority group in the U.S. than among their Canadian counterparts. Some possible reasons are discussed.

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Early adolescence is a time of rapid social, cognitive, and physical change. For some youth, these changes can make this period a vulnerable point in development. Adding to the stress, some students transfer from an elementary school to a middle school or to a comprehensive high school. While the impact on youth of moving to a higher level of schooling has been the focus of intense research and debate in the United States, surprisingly little research has been conducted examining how Canadian youth make this transition within the context of Canadian schools. With this in mind, this paper examines the academic, behavioural and emotional adjustment of Canadian adolescents who transfer from an elementary school to a middle or comprehensive high school and compares their outcomes to those of a group of youth who did not change schools. Results of several statistical analyses suggest that changing schools had little systematic association to adolescents' academic outcomes. This held true regardless of whether the school was a middle school or a comprehensive high school. Similarly, transferring to a middle school had little negative association to adolescents' emotional and behavioural outcomes. Indeed, with respect to social aggression, the analyses suggested that students in middle schools may use indirect or socially directed aggression less frequently than students who remained in elementary school. However, transferring directly from an elementary school to a comprehensive high school appeared to have some negative emotional consequences. Youth who moved directly from an elementary school to a high school reported greater symptoms of physical stress. Further, female students who directly transfer to high schools at ages 12 and 13, reported higher levels of depressive affect than female adolescents who remained in an elementary school.

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This article uses data from the 1998 International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the contribution of educational attainment and literacy skills to economic growth and the earnings of individuals.

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Using data from the Youth In Transition Survey, this article identifies early indicators that a student might be at risk of dropping out of high school by the age of 17, by comparing high school dropouts to high school continuers and graduates on a range of characteristics at age 15.

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This paper examines the extent to which the relationship between participation in post-secondary education and family background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long-standing pattern that university participation rates are highest among youths from high-income families and of highly educated parents. There is no evidence to suggest that this relationship between university participation and family background changed over the 1993-2001 period. Although university participation rates generally rise as family incomes increase, there is little difference in participation rates among youths from modest-income (below $75,000) and low-income families. Overall, the correlation between university participation and family income changed very little between 1993 and 2001. Next, when taking account of both parental education and parental income, university participation rates are more strongly associated with parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data gaps do not have important implications on conclusions about the relationship between post-secondary education and family background throughout the 1993-2001 period.

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This paper outlines the two pillars of Statistics Canada's Education Outreach Program: an interactive website offering free online information, learning tools and resources specifically designed for the education community, and a network of education representatives in the regional offices providing expertise and support at a grassroots level.

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This paper reviews the implementation of the international CensusAtSchool and related projects. It emphasizes how to the involvement and support of various levels of government statistical services have contributed to the project's success.

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The growth in micro-technologies and their widespread diffusion across economic sectors have given rise to what is often described as a New Economy - an economy in which competitive prospects are closely aligned with the firm's innovation and technology practices, and its use of skilled workers. Training is one strategy that many firms undertake in order to improve the quality of their workforce.

This study contributes to the expanding body of research in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT). Using data on business sector workplaces from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), we investigate factors related to the incidence and intensity of training. The study focuses on whether training incidence and training intensity are more closely associated with the technological competencies of specific workplaces than with membership in ICT and science-based industry environments. The study finds that training incidence depends more on the technological competencies exhibited by individual workplaces. Among workplaces that decide to train, these technological competencies are also important determinants of the intensity of training.

Workplaces which score highly on our index of technological competency are over three times more likely to train than those that rank zero on the competency index. The size of the workplace is also a factor. Large and medium-sized workplaces are 3 and 2.3 times more likely to train than small workplaces, respectively. And workplaces with higher-skilled workforces are more likely to train than workplaces with lower-skilled workforces.

For workplaces that choose to train, their technological competency is the main determinant of training intensity. The size of the workplace, the average cost of training, and the skill level of the workforce are also influential factors'but to a lesser extent. Other factors, such as sector, outside sources of funding, and unionization status, are not influential factors in determining the intensity of training. Workplaces that have a higher average cost of training train fewer employees as a proportion of their workforce. However, the skill level of their employees moderates this effect, because as payroll-per-employee increases (a proxy for worker skills), plants train more.

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This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity, location) has important direct and indirect effects on post-secondary participation. The indirect effects of background operate through a set of intermediate variables representing high school outcomes and related attitudes and behaviours. Overall, the large fraction of the family background effect that operates through indirect channels indicates that the period of life before post-secondary financing and related issues become important is crucial for equitable and efficient post-secondary access. These results are based on two sex-specific measures of access (Any Post-secondary, and University) obtained from Statistics Canada's School Leavers and Follow-Up Surveys.

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This article summarizes the results of the 2003 Programme for International Assessment, providing international comparisons of student performance in mathematics, reading, science and problem-solving.

Description: There is a critical need in Canada for highly skilled tradespeople. Apprenticeships in trades are a major source of skilled workers for the Canadian economy. The National Apprenticeship Survey collects information to understand apprenticeship-related issues. This includes the factors that affect apprentices' completion and certification before, during and after their involvement with their apprenticeship.

Description: This survey collects annual information on the number and characteristics of the part-time teaching staff at Canadian public degree-granting postsecondary institutions. It was designed to complement the survey of full-time faculty and to reflect the changing reality of higher education.

Description: The data will be used to calculate contributions to the provinces for enrolments in minority-language programs at the postsecondary level.

Description: The purpose of this survey is twofold: - to gather information on the transfer of Canadian knowledge, skills and expertise through projects funded by the International Financial Institutions (IFI) that include a training component; and - to gather information on the marketing and sale of Canadian education and training products through projects funded by the International Financial Institutions (IFI).

Description: The Postsecondary Student Survey was designed to address such things as: 1) access to postsecondary education; 2) part-time and full-time study and employment; 3) students' income and expenditures; and 4) issues such as mobility, language and Canadian Studies.

Description: This survey, which was conducted in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989, identified the number of Alberta-registered apprentices and Alberta-certified journeymen who were active in their trade, as well as the trades in which they were active. The 1989 survey also identified the number of apprentices and journeymen willing to work fewer hours per week at the same hourly rate but with an equal reduction in pay and benefits.

Description: The data obtained from this survey will be useful to the Alberta government in manpower planning and in forecasting future demands on universities and community colleges in that province. In other words, the provincial government needs to determine how skilled the workforce is in order to assess the potential population to be served by universities and community colleges.

Description: The general aim of this survey is to obtain information related to the objectives of federal government programs which support post-secondary education. These data will be used to identify the extent to which residents of Canada have participated in post-secondary education, as well as describing the reasons for non-participation.

Description: This national survey, which is sponsored by the Secretary of State of Canada, is used for the development of a detailed literacy profile of the adult Canadian population.

Description: The Adult Education and Training Survey (AETS) is Canada's most comprehensive source of data on individual participation in formal adult education and training. It is the only Canadian survey to collect detailed information about the skill development efforts of the entire adult Canadian population.