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Table 3 Employment and hours worked among full-time postsecondary students

	All students	Employment rate	Average weekly hours	More than 20 hours per week
	All students	Employment rate	Of those employed
	'000	%	hours	%
School year
2009/2010	1,193	45	15.8	18
Men (ref.)	526	40	16.7	22
Women	667	50^*	15.3^*	16^*
Aged 15 to 19 (ref.)	439	43	14.3	13
Aged 20 to 24	754	47^*	16.6^*	21^*
Immigrant (ref.)	223	32	16.1	19
Canadian born	970	49^*	15.8	18
Immigrant men (ref.)	111	29	17.3	23
Immigrant women	112	35	15.2^*	16
Canadian born men	415	43^*	16.6	22
Canadian born women	555	53^*	15.3^*	16^*
Lives in census metropolitan area (CMA) (ref.)	972	47	15.7	18
Non-CMA	221	39^*	16.5^*	20
Usual residence
Living at home (ref.)	831	46	15.3	16
Not at home	361	44	17.1^*	23^*
College (ref.)	460	49	16.0	18
University	733	43^*	15.7	18
* significantly different from the reference group (ref.) at the 0.05 level Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2009/2010.