Table 4
Education and the labour market

Table 4
Education and the labour market
Table summary
This table displays the results of education and the labour market. This information is grouped by total, less than high school, high school graduate, some post-secondary, post-secondary certificate or diploma and university degree (appearing as column headers), calculated using thousands and percentage as a unit of measure.
  Total Less than high school High school graduate Some post-secondary Post-secondary certificate or diploma University degree
'000
Employment
December 2010 17,087.2 1,762.9 3,298.2 1,391.3 6,188.2 4,446.7
December 2011 17,271.7 1,767.9 3,527.3 1,269.6 6,186.0 4,521.0
Change 184.5 5.0 229.1 -121.7 -2.2 74.3
Employment rate %
December 2010 61.4 32.5 61.2 58.7 71.3 74.8
December 2011 61.4 32.9 61.4 57.7 70.5 74.9
Change 0.0 0.4 0.2 -1.0 -0.8 0.1
Unemployment rate
December 2010 7.0 14.5 7.8 7.9 5.8 4.6
December 2011 6.9 14.3 7.3 8.4 5.9 4.2
Change -0.1 -0.2 -0.5 0.5 0.1 -0.4
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, December 2010 and December 2011, data not seasonally adjusted.
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