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Table B.2.7
Percentage of households incurring education expenditures and average expenditure per household on education, Canada and provinces, 2006

  Can. N.L. P.E.I. N.S. N.B. Que. Ont. Man. Sask. Alta. B.C.
percentage
Percentage of households incurring expenditures on education 43 36 40 40 35 42 44 39 38 46 45
Supplies, all levels 29 29 28 30 26 27 31 27 28 32 28
Textbooks, all levels 21 21 13 14 14 26 20 14 15 22 20
Tuition, pre-elementary and elementary-secondary 10 4 5 5 5 14 5 6 15 21 8
Tuition, postsecondary 19 15 15 14 14 18 19 15 14 19 21
  dollars
Average education expenditure per household incurring such expenditure 2,703 1,948 2,299 2,634 2,689 1,595 3,216 2,349 2,268 2,915 3,368
Supplies, all levels 211 189 170 191 218 175 233 181 202 247 185
Textbooks, all levels 545 493 693 567 582 355 685 669 635 577 549
Tuition, pre-elementary and elementary-secondary 1,351 154 333 1,804 240 986 2,740 1,541 233 553 2,268
Tuition, postsecondary 3,821 3,067 4,747 5,511 5,401 1,555 4,625 3,750 4,221 4,378 4,656
Data source: Survey of Household Spending, 2006, calculations based on CANSIM Table 203-0012, Statistics Canada.
Table source: Statistics Canada and Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. 2007. Education indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program. Catalogue no. 81-582-XIE. Ottawa.
Date Modified: 2011-07-11

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