Portrait of Youth in Canada: Data Visualization Tool
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Data
The data used to create this interactive web application are from the following listed data tables:
Demographics
Health
Education
- Student debt of postsecondary graduates from all sources, by province of study, level of study, field of study and sex
- Educational attainment of the population aged 25 to 64, by age group and sex, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Canada, provinces and territories
- Literacy, numeracy - Average scores and distribution of proficiency levels, by sex and age group
Employment
- Percentage of 15-to 29-year-olds in education and not in education by labour force status, highest level of education attained, age group and sex
- Labour force characteristics by sex and detailed age group, annual
- Employee wages by occupation, annual
- Labour force characteristics by visible minority group and region, three-month moving averages, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Indigenous
- Aboriginal Identity (9), Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (15), Labour Force Status (8), Registered or Treaty Indian Status (3), Residence by Aboriginal Geography (10), Age (10) and Sex (3) for the Population Aged 15 Years and Over in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data
- Self-rated ability to understand and speak an Aboriginal language by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex
- Self-perceived mental health and suicidal thoughts by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex
Engagement
- Volunteer rate and average annual volunteer hours, by definition of volunteering and age group
- Civic engagement and engagement in political activities, by groups designated as visible minorities and selected sociodemographic characteristics, 2020
- Vote in the last federal, provincial and municipal elections, by groups designated as visible minorities and selected sociodemographic characteristics, 2020
Additional information
General content
- What matters to Canadian youth?
- A Portrait of Canadian Youth
- Canada’s first State of youth report: for you, with youth, by youth
7 domains
Population and Demography
Definitions
- Gender
- Given that the non-binary population is small, data aggregation to a two-category gender variable is sometimes necessary to protect the confidentiality of responses provided. In these cases, individuals in the category “non-binary persons” are distributed into the other two gender categories and are denoted by the “+” symbol.
- Men+
- This category includes men (and/or boys), as well as some non-binary persons.
- Women+
- This category includes women (and/or girls), as well as some non-binary persons
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Health
Chapter 1: Health of youth in Canada
Definitions
- Heavy drinking
- Heavy drinking refers to males who reported having 5 or more drinks, or women who reported having 4 or more drinks, on one occasion, at least once a month in the past year.
- Perceived mental health, fair or poor
- Perceived mental health refers to the perception of a person's mental health in general. Perceived mental health provides a general indication of the population suffering from some form of mental disorder, mental or emotional problems, or distress, not necessarily reflected in perceived health.
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- Activities and concerns of Canadian youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Health Reports: Prescription medication use among Canadian children and youth, 2012 to 2017
- Physical activity, screen time and sleep duration: Combined associations with psychosocial health among Canadian children and youth
- Physical activity of Canadian children and youth
- Canadians report lower-self-perceived health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Exercise and screen time during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Analysis of trends in the prevalence of cannabis use and related metrics in Canada?
- Deaths and age-specific mortality rates, by selected grouped causes
Education
Chapter 3: Youth and Education in Canada
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- How are postsecondary students in Canada impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Young people not working, in school or training: What were they doing?
- Saving for postsecondary education, 2020
- Profile of Canadian graduates at the bachelor level belonging to a group designated as a visible minority, 2014 to 2017 cohorts
- Overqualification among 2012 and 2013 bachelor's graduates
- Labour market outcomes of postsecondary graduates, class of 2015
- Gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the proportion of youth neither in employment nor education at the start of the school year
- Trends in student debt of postsecondary graduates in Canada: Results from the National Graduates Survey, 2018
- Work-integrated learning during postsecondary studies, 2015 graduates
- Does reading proficiency at age 15 affect employment earnings in young adulthood?
- Results from the 2016 Census: English-French bilingualism among Canadian children and youth
- Persistence and representation of women in STEM programs
- Gender differences in STEM enrolment and graduation: What are the roles of academic performance and preparation?
- Educational experiences of young women with disabilities
Engagement
Chapter 6: Political participation, civic engagement and caregiving among youth in Canada
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How to use
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