Table 1
Percentage of people aged 25 to 39 who hold a university degree, 1986-2009

Table summary
This table displays the results of Percentage of people aged 25 to 39 who hold a university degree.
The information is grouped by Parents' education, Parents' education and sex, Parents' country of birth, Region of birth, and Mother tongue(appearing as row headers),
Canadian-born persons aged 25 to 39 (appearing as column headers),
calculated using percentage with a university degree as a unit of measure.
	Canadian-born persons aged 25 to 39
	1986†	1994	2000	2003	2006	2009
	percentage with a university degree
Total	14.7	20.5*	23.1*	26.4*	30.5*	31.4*
Parents' education
No university degree or don't know	12.0	17.0*	17.2*	20.1*	22.8*	23.0*
At least one university degree	44.7	49.3	51.1	52.1	54.7*	55.8*
Sex
Men	16.2	19.9*	22.3*	24.2*	27.6*	26.6*
Women	13.3	21.2*	23.9*	28.6*	33.4*	36.5*
Parents' education and sex
No university degree or don't know
Men	13.7	15.7	16.0	17.4*	20.4*	18.1*
Women	10.3	18.3*	18.3*	22.7*	25.3*	28.0*
At least one university degree
Men	42.5	52.4	49.3	50.6	50.2	50.1
Women	47.1	46.0	53.4	53.6	59.3*	62.0
Parents' country of birth
Canada	13.6	19.1*	21.2*	23.5*	27.7*	28.9*
At least one foreign-born parent	20.6	26.7	31.0*	36.4*	40.1*	40.2*
Region of birth¹
Atlantic	..	17.1	23.2*	23.2*	24.0*	29.3*
Quebec	..	20.7	22.7	26.4*	31.8*	30.4*
Ontario	..	22.4	24.9	29.0*	31.7*	33.7*
Prairies	..	19.2	21.8	24.7*	28.5*	29.6*
British Columbia	..	18.9	19.6	23.4	32.4*	31.3*
Mother tongue
English	15.8	20.8*	23.6*	26.7*	29.3*	31.6*
French	11.5	18.1*	21.3*	24.3*	30.4*	29.0*
Other	24.2	30.9	26.9	32.2	42.3*	44.5*
.. not available for a specific reference period † reference group * statistically significant difference from reference group at p < 0.05 1. For region of birth, the reference group is 1994. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Suvey, 1986, 1994, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009.

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