Table 4.3.4
Age of university students of bachelor's and other undergraduate
degrees by type of program, Nova Scotia, 2004/2005 and
2005/2006
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| 2004/2005 | 2005/2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 25 years | Less than 25 years | |||
| % | average years | % | average years | |
| Bachelor's and other undergraduate degrees | 82.6 | 20 | 83.0 | 20 |
| Health programs1 | 58.2 | 21 | 62.4 | 21 |
| Health services / allied health / health sciences, general | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Chiropractic | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Communication disorders sciences and services | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Dentistry | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Advanced / graduate dentistry and oral sciences | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Dental support services and allied professions | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Health and medical administrative services | 100.0 | 21 | 100.0 | 22 |
| Allied health and medical assisting services | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Allied health diagnostic, intervention and treatment professions | 63.4 | 21 | 66.7 | 21 |
| Clinical / medical laboratory science and allied professions | 66.7 | 20 | 77.8 | 21 |
| Health / medical preparatory programs | 90.9 | 19 | 93.3 | 19 |
| Medical scientist | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Mental and social health services and allied professions | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Nursing | 58.0 | 21 | 66.6 | 20 |
| Optometry | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Ophthalmic and optometric support services and allied professions | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Osteopathic medicine / osteopathy | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and administration | 73.5 | 22 | 71.2 | 22 |
| Podiatric medicine / podiatry | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Public health | 67.4 | 21 | 70.2 | 22 |
| Rehabilitation and therapeutic professions | 58.9 | 22 | 54.0 | 23 |
| Occupational therapy / therapist | 53.2 | 23 | 48.5 | 23 |
| Physical therapy / therapist | 64.6 | 22 | 58.1 | 23 |
| Other rehabilitation and therapeutic professions | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Health aides / attendants / orderlies | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Medical illustration and informatics | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Dietetics and clinical nutrition services | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Bioethics / medical ethics | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Alternative and complementary medicine and medical systems | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Alternative and complementary medical support services | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Somatic bodywork and related therapeutic services | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Movement and mind-body therapies | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Energy-based and biologically-based therapies | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Health professions and related clinical sciences, other | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Dental residency programs | 43.5 | 23 | 40.4 | 23 |
| Physicians2 | 35.2 | 23 | 32.3 | 23 |
| Medicine | 35.2 | 23 | 32.3 | 23 |
| Medical residency programs | 0.0 | 23 | 0.0 | … |
| Selected health-related programs | 86.9 | 20 | 86.7 | 21 |
| Psychology | 87.7 | 21 | 87.7 | 21 |
| Clinical psychology | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Counselling psychology | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Clinical child psychology | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Health / medical psychology | 0.0 | … | 0.0 | … |
| Other psychology | 87.7 | 21 | 87.7 | 21 |
| Social work | 19.4 | 24 | 23.9 | 23 |
| Health and physical education / fitness | 97.5 | 20 | 97.7 | 20 |
| All other programs3 | 84.8 | 20 | 85.1 | 20 |
… not applicable
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Excludes veterinary programs.
2. Not a standard Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) category. Physicians are comprised of Medicine and Medical residency programs.
3. Includes veterinary programs but excludes all health programs, Psychology, Social work, and Health and physical education/fitness.
Notes: With the exception of Physical therapy / therapist and Occupational therapy / therapist, type of program is defined using the 2- or 4-digit level of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). See Appendix 3 for more details. Data for medicine programs and medical residency programs are not consistent with those published by the Association of Faculties of Medicine Canada and the Canadian Post-M.D. Education Registry, respectively. Future work is required to understand these inconsistencies.
To ensure the confidentiality of responses, a random rounding process is applied to the data. As a result, when these data are summed or grouped, the total value may not match the sum of the individual values, since total and subtotals are independently rounded. Similarly, percentage distributions, which are calculated on rounded data, may not necessarily add up to 100%.
Source: Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS), Statistics Canada.
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