Table 2
Sample characteristics by sex and educational attainment

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Table 2
Sample characteristics by sex and educational attainment
Table summary
This table displays the results of Sample characteristics by sex and educational attainment Men, Women, High school diploma, College certificate and Bachelor's degree, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Men Women
High school diploma College certificate Bachelor's degree High school diploma College certificate Bachelor's degree
percent
Member of a visible-minority group 0.6 1.5 2.4 0.9 0.8 1.6
Aboriginal person 3.3 3.8 1.3 4.1 3.9 2.2
First official language learned and still understood is French 32.0 31.2 28.7 31.4 26.2 24.4
Has a long-term disability 2.9 3.6 2.0 2.3 3.0 1.6
Province of birth  
Newfoundland and Labrador 2.1 2.1 1.8 2.7 2.8 1.5
Prince Edward Island 0.6 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.8 1.6
Nova Scotia 3.4 3.7 5.4 2.9 4.6 5.5
New Brunswick 4.4 2.6 2.4 4.1 3.1 2.3
Quebec 31.7 30.3 31.5 29.3 27.3 27.0
Ontario 33.4 35.0 33.0 32.4 35.0 32.6
Manitoba 4.3 5.3 5.2 4.5 4.9 5.2
Saskatchewan 5.5 4.5 4.8 5.2 5.7 5.9
Alberta 6.1 9.8 8.4 8.3 7.7 10.3
British Columbia 8.4 6.3 6.8 9.8 8.2 8.0
Year of birth  
1955 35.1 32.5 33.1 33.8 32.2 31.4
1956 33.7 31.6 32.3 32.2 33.4 33.6
1957 31.2 35.9 34.6 34.1 34.4 35.0
Note: The samples consist of 3,441 men and 4,510 women born in a Canadian province between 1955 and 1957 who hold a high school diploma, a college certificate, or a bachelor's degree (in a field other than law) and who are present in the Longitudinal Worker File (LWF) at least 18 of the 20 years from 1991 to 2010.
Source: Statistics Canada, 1991 Census of Population–Longitudinal Worker File.
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