Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective, 2018
Table B.1.1.2
Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, in equivalent US dollars converted using purchasing power parity, OECD, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016

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Table B.1.1.2
Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, in equivalent US dollars converted using purchasing power parity, OECD, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Annual expenditure by educational institutions per student, for all services, by educational level, in equivalent US dollars converted using purchasing power parity, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada, provinces and territories, 2015/2016. Pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, College and Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral levels, or equivalent including research and development, calculated using US dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary College Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral levels, or equivalent including R&DTable B-1-1-2 Note 1
US dollars
OECD averageTable B-1-1-2 Note 2 Table B-1-1-2 Note 3 9,401 11,022 16,518
CanadaTable B-1-1-2 Note 4 10,639 12,995 25,659
Newfoundland and Labrador 11,225 16,088 33,120
Prince Edward Island 9,942 18,602 29,780
Nova Scotia 11,003 14,085 26,419
New Brunswick 10,706 14,632 26,757
Quebec 10,267 9,940 22,441
Ontario 10,618 13,733 23,928
Manitoba 12,243 13,310 24,033
SaskatchewanTable B-1-1-2 Note 5 12,109 18,931 33,469
Alberta 12,286 14,782 32,663
British Columbia 8,297 11,964 30,414
Yukon 23,104 30,753 Note ...: not applicable
Northwest Territories 21,819 48,506 Note ...: not applicable
Nunavut 12,613 51,527 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
Note 1

For the university sector, financial data are collected at an institutional level only, and cannot be divided by type of program. As a result, expenditures also include any expenditures for programs that are not at the Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral levels such as career, technical or professional training programs.

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Note 2

The OECD data can be found at http://stats.oecd.org/, Education at a Glance Database (accessed on September 11, 2018).

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Note 3

In column 1, the OECD average includes postsecondary non-tertiary, while the figures for Canada and the provinces and territories do not.

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Note 4

Due to early cut-off dates for submission of data to the OECD, the figures for Canada presented in this report are not the same as those published in the OECD's Education at a Glance 2015: OECD Indicators. The figures presented in this table represent the most recent available.

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Note 5

For the college level, regional colleges are excluded from the calculation.

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Notes: Comparisons between the provinces and territories must be made with caution. Certain differences in the cost per student figures by province/territory at the secondary level are attributable to whether or not registrations for adult education programs are included in enrolments in some provinces/territories. As of the 2015/2016 data year there have been changes in the methodology, so these values should not be directly compared to previous years. Please see the Definitions, sources and methodology section of chapter B1 for details. In Quebec, vocational training and general education for adults are included at the secondary level. Note that this indicator does not follow the OECD's new method for calculating expenditure, and focuses on expenditures by educational institutions.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Elementary-Secondary Education Survey; Survey of Uniform Financial System - School Boards; Survey of Financial Statistics of Private Elementary and Secondary Schools; Survey of Federal Government Expenditures in Support of Education; Provincial Expenditures on Education in Reform and Correctional Institutions; Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey; Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS); and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance 2018: OECD Indicators.
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