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Education Matters

February 2006

This issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada contains two articles.

The article "Literacy skills among Canada's immigrant population" uses the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey to analyze literacy skills among recent immigrants and those who have been in Canada for more than 10 years. The report reveals that immigrants tended to perform at lower proficiency than the Canadian-born population, a finding that is cause for concern. This is especially the case because immigration will account for all of the labour force net growth in the coming years.

The Census at School is a classroom project that teaches students aged 8 to 18 how to conduct statistics research and census-taking. As part of the project, students anonymously filled in an online questionnaire about themselves. The report "Census at School: Engaging students in statistics" analyzes what students themselves had to say about their reading and associated daily habits. This voluntary project, however, is not an official Statistics Canada survey conducted under the Statistics Act. As a result, data collected are not representative of Canada's student population.

The publication Education Matters, released every two months, is a source of facts and analyses on education, training and learning. It offers quick access to the latest education indicators and in-depth research from Statistics Canada. It also links electronically to a wide variety of data, news on education, learning resources and tables, charts and analyses.

The publication Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, Vol. 2, no. 5 (81-004-XIE, free) is now available online. From the Our products and services page, under Browse our Internet publications, choose Free, then Education, then Education Matters.

For more information, contact Client Services (telephone: 1 800 307-3382 or 613-951-7608; fax: 613-951-9040; email: educationstats@statcan.gc.ca), Centre for Education Statistics.