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Table A.4.1
Employment rates1 of 25- to 64-year-olds, by highest level of education attained and sex, Canada and jurisdictions, 2008
| ISCED 0/1 (Pre-primary and primary) | ISCED 2 (Lower secondary) | ISCED 3C (Short programmes) | Upper secondary education | ISCED 4 (Postsecondary non-tertiary) | Tertiary education | All levels of education | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISCED 3C (Long programmes)/3B | ISCED 3A | ISCED 5B (Type B) | ISCED 5A/6 (Type A and Advanced research programmes) | ||||||
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 | Column 7 | Column 8 | Column 9 | |
| percent | |||||||||
| OECD averages2 | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 49.3 | 61.9 | 73.6 | 75.4 | 74.9 | 81.2 | 82.5 | 85.2 | 74.0 |
| Men | 64.5 | 73.9 | 83.5 | 84.1 | 83.4 | 88.4 | 88.1 | 89.8 | 83.0 |
| Women | 37.0 | 50.1 | 67.1 | 65.2 | 66.5 | 76.9 | 78.2 | 79.9 | 65.1 |
| Canada3 | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 43.4 | 63.9 | … | [5] | 74.9 | 79.9 | 82.5 | 82.7 | 77.0 |
| Men | 53.8 | 71.6 | … | [5] | 81.0 | 83.0 | 86.9 | 86.0 | 81.7 |
| Women | 32.4 | 54.0 | … | [5] | 69.1 | 74.2 | 79.2 | 79.6 | 72.4 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 30.8 | 45.2 | … | [5] | 61.5 | 69.2 | 74.0 | 81.3 | 63.9 |
| Men | 38.4 | 52.1 | … | [5] | 69.1 | 70.5 | 79.2 | 82.5 | 67.8 |
| Women | 21.7 | 38.8 | … | [5] | 54.6 | 67.1 | 70.9 | 80.3 | 60.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 51.8 | 61.0 | … | [5] | 73.2 | 75.9 | 81.9 | 83.8 | 75.0 |
| Men | 57.2 | 69.0 | … | [5] | 77.2 | 77.2 | 82.3 | 82.9 | 76.3 |
| Women | 37.0 | 49.1 | … | [5] | 69.2 | 73.5 | 81.6 | 84.5 | 73.9 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 39.9 | 57.7 | … | [5] | 70.6 | 73.0 | 79.8 | 82.6 | 72.6 |
| Men | 48.5 | 66.5 | … | [5] | 74.6 | 75.5 | 82.9 | 84.7 | 75.7 |
| Women | 26.8 | 47.2 | … | [5] | 67.0 | 68.8 | 77.8 | 80.9 | 69.8 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 37.2 | 54.1 | … | [5] | 72.0 | 74.0 | 81.2 | 84.3 | 72.7 |
| Men | 42.2 | 61.9 | … | [5] | 76.6 | 73.7 | 83.7 | 86.6 | 75.1 |
| Women | 29.2 | 45.5 | … | [5] | 67.7 | 74.4 | 79.2 | 82.5 | 70.4 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 40.4 | 61.6 | … | [5] | 71.7 | 76.6 | 82.4 | 81.8 | 74.3 |
| Men | 50.7 | 69.1 | … | [5] | 76.1 | 78.8 | 85.6 | 82.6 | 77.7 |
| Women | 29.8 | 52.1 | … | [5] | 67.5 | 73.5 | 79.7 | 81.1 | 71.0 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 44.3 | 63.0 | … | [5] | 74.7 | 79.5 | 83.0 | 82.7 | 77.6 |
| Men | 56.1 | 68.6 | … | [5] | 80.7 | 82.7 | 86.8 | 86.7 | 82.2 |
| Women | 33.4 | 55.9 | … | [5] | 68.8 | 73.3 | 80.0 | 78.9 | 73.2 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 57.5 | 69.3 | … | [5] | 80.2 | 82.3 | 85.6 | 85.7 | 80.7 |
| Men | 72.9 | 78.4 | … | [5] | 86.5 | 86.8 | 91.8 | 88.1 | 86.2 |
| Women | 42.4 | 56.2 | … | [5] | 73.9 | 74.2 | 81.0 | 83.7 | 75.1 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 52.6 | 70.5 | … | [5] | 81.0 | 86.5 | 85.0 | 85.3 | 81.6 |
| Men | 69.5 | 77.8 | … | [5] | 87.7 | 89.3 | 90.7 | 88.3 | 86.5 |
| Women | 27.7 | 58.6 | … | [5] | 74.1 | 82.6 | 82.3 | 82.8 | 76.8 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 56.3 | 74.4 | … | [5] | 82.2 | 88.0 | 84.3 | 85.3 | 83.0 |
| Men | 69.8 | 84.6 | … | [5] | 90.2 | 91.3 | 91.5 | 91.4 | 89.9 |
| Women | 40.4 | 60.6 | … | [5] | 74.5 | 79.0 | 79.9 | 79.5 | 75.7 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 45.1 | 65.9 | … | [5] | 74.3 | 82.4 | 79.9 | 80.9 | 76.8 |
| Men | 52.3 | 76.1 | … | [5] | 81.2 | 86.1 | 87.7 | 84.6 | 82.8 |
| Women | 38.2 | 53.4 | … | [5] | 67.7 | 73.9 | 75.5 | 77.4 | 71.0 |
| Yukon | |||||||||
| Both sexes | x | 61.2 | … | [5] | 83.3 | 85.4 | 87.5 | 91.6 | 82.7 |
| Men | x | 63.2 | … | [5] | 83.2 | 84.3 | 90.3 | 92.2 | 83.5 |
| Women | x | 58.5 | … | [5] | 83.4 | 90.6 | 86.0 | 91.3 | 84.2 |
| Northwest Territories | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 48.3 | 67.5 | … | [5] | 84.8 | 88.2 | 86.6 | 94.6 | 81.9 |
| Men | 48.7 | 71.0 | … | [5] | 88.4 | 87.3 | 90.3 | 97.1 | 83.6 |
| Women | 47.9 | 62.4 | … | [5] | 81.1 | 90.9 | 84.2 | 92.6 | 80.1 |
| Nunavut | |||||||||
| Both sexes | 47.3 | 53.1 | … | [5] | 72.8 | 70.6 | 84.3 | 93.8 | 67.8 |
| Men | 51.4 | 51.8 | … | [5] | 74.7 | 75.3 | 87.3 | 93.8 | 68.9 |
| Women | 43.4 | 54.6 | … | [5] | 70.9 | x | 81.7 | 93.9 | 66.7 |
| … not applicable x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act 1. Number of 25- to 64-year-olds in employment as a percentage of the population aged 25 to 64. 2. These averages are from Education at a Glance 2010: OECD Indicators, Table A6.1a, Employment rates and educational attainment, by gender (2008) and Table A6.1b (Web only), Employment rates and educational attainment (2008), which present the most recent available data for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 31 member countries. Please see the OECD's Web site at www.oecd.org. 3. Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates for Canada are derived using the results of the LFS in the provinces; the territories are not included. Note: [ ] Data included in column of the table whose number is shown in the squared brackets. Sources: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (LFS); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance 2010: OECD Indicators. |
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