Educational attainment and qualifications

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• 1. The effect of parents’ education and income on the educational attainment of childhood immigrants

  Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300900002

  Description: Many immigrants move to countries such as Canada in part to provide better educational and economic opportunities for their children. For its part, Canada also looks to immigrants and their children to provide higher-level skills to the labour market. This paper examines the effect of the mother’s and father’s education on the likelihood of a childhood immigrant who arrived in Canada at age 17 or younger, completing postsecondary education. The paper further determines whether there is significant variation in these relationships among immigrants from different source regions.

  Release date: 2023-09-27

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• 2. Persistent overqualification among immigrants and non-immigrants

  Articles and reports: 75-006-X202000100004

  Description:

  Using integrated data from the 2006 and 2016 censuses, this study examines persistent overqualification over time among immigrants and non-immigrants. More specifically, the study examines the link between various characteristics associated with immigration and the probability of overqualification in both 2006 and 2016.

  Release date: 2020-09-02

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• 3. Educating Health Workers: Provincial Results Archived

  Articles and reports: 81-595-M2008068

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Using major Statistics Canada data sources related to the education and training of Canadians, this publication presents a jurisdictional view of what we currently know on educating health workers to begin to address some critical questions facing Canadians today: Does Canada have enough interested individuals with the right skills who want to work in health? Does it have the infrastructure, capacity, and effective education system to ensure an adequate supply of health workers to meet future health care demands?

  As such, this report reveals some important information about what happens before, during and after health education. It focuses on interest in health occupations, the number of students taking and graduating from postsecondary health programs along with their socio-demographic characteristics and those of the faculty teaching these programs, the labour market experiences of recent graduates from these programs - including their mobility after graduation - as well as the ongoing participation of health workers in formal and informal training.

  Release date: 2008-10-10

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• 4. Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2008316

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  We analyse the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of intergenerational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian-born children, and one third as strong as for the general population. Parental earnings are not correlated with years of schooling for second-generation children and, if anything, are negatively correlated. Finally, we find that the intergenerational transmission of education has not changed across the birth cohorts of the post-war period.

  Release date: 2008-10-02

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• 5. Delayed transitions of young adults Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X200700410311

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  The transition to adulthood is often viewed as a period where young people move by stages into adult roles: completing their schooling, leaving their parents' home, acquiring permanent work, finding a partner or spouse and becoming a parent. In recent years, social scientists have found that the transition to adulthood is taking longer to complete. Using census data to compare young adults in 1971 to those in 2001, it assesses just how lengthy the delay has become.

  Release date: 2007-12-11

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• 6. Has Higher Education Among Young Women Substantially Reduced the Gender Gap in Employment and Earnings? Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2007301

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Young women have gained considerable ground on young men in terms of educational attainment in the 1990s. The objective of this study is to assess the role of rapidly rising educational attainment among young women in raising their relative position in the labour market. The findings suggest that the educational trends have not contributed towards a decline in the full-time employment gap. Nevertheless, they have contributed towards a decline in the gender earnings gap, especially in the 1990s. However, university-educated women have lost ground to university-educated men. This is likely due to the fact that men and women continued to choose traditional disciplines during the 1990s, but only male-dominated disciplines saw improvements in average earnings.

  Release date: 2007-06-12

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• 7. Human Capital and Canadian Provincial Standards of Living Archived

  Articles and reports: 89-552-M2006014

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This paper examines the role of human capital accumulation in explaining the relative levels of income per capita across Canadian provinces. We use principally two different types of human capital indicators based respectively on university attainment and literacy test scores. A synthetic time series of the average literacy level of labour market entrants for each period between 1951 and 2001 is constructed from the demographic profile of literacy test scores taken from the 2003 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey. The percentage of the working-age population holding a university degree is available since 1951 from the census figures. Our main results are the following. First, both human capital indicators are strong predictors of the relative levels of per capita income (minus government transfers) across provinces, along with the relative rates of urbanization and specific shocks in Alberta and Quebec. Second, the skills acquired by one extra year of schooling result in an increase in per capita income of around 7.3 percent. Third, we find that our literacy indicator does not outperform the university attainment indicator. This contrasts sharply with our recent result found at the cross-country level (Coulombe, Tremblay, and Marchand [2004]) and suggests substantial measurement error in cross-country schooling data. Fourth, by focusing on regional economies that have similar levels of social infrastructure and social development, our analysis provides potentially more reliable estimates of the contribution of human capital accumulation to relative living standards.

  Release date: 2006-04-05

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• 8. 30 years of education: Canada's language groups Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X20030036701

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This article examines how the educational profiles of francophones, anglophones and allophones have changed over the past 30 years, and the factors that have contributed to many of these changes.

  Release date: 2003-12-09

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• 9. Update on education Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X20030036703

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This article examines the changing educational attainment profile of Canadians using census data.

  Release date: 2003-12-09

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• 1. The effect of parents’ education and income on the educational attainment of childhood immigrants

  Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300900002

  Description: Many immigrants move to countries such as Canada in part to provide better educational and economic opportunities for their children. For its part, Canada also looks to immigrants and their children to provide higher-level skills to the labour market. This paper examines the effect of the mother’s and father’s education on the likelihood of a childhood immigrant who arrived in Canada at age 17 or younger, completing postsecondary education. The paper further determines whether there is significant variation in these relationships among immigrants from different source regions.

  Release date: 2023-09-27

  ---

• 2. Persistent overqualification among immigrants and non-immigrants

  Articles and reports: 75-006-X202000100004

  Description:

  Using integrated data from the 2006 and 2016 censuses, this study examines persistent overqualification over time among immigrants and non-immigrants. More specifically, the study examines the link between various characteristics associated with immigration and the probability of overqualification in both 2006 and 2016.

  Release date: 2020-09-02

  ---

• 3. Educating Health Workers: Provincial Results Archived

  Articles and reports: 81-595-M2008068

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Using major Statistics Canada data sources related to the education and training of Canadians, this publication presents a jurisdictional view of what we currently know on educating health workers to begin to address some critical questions facing Canadians today: Does Canada have enough interested individuals with the right skills who want to work in health? Does it have the infrastructure, capacity, and effective education system to ensure an adequate supply of health workers to meet future health care demands?

  As such, this report reveals some important information about what happens before, during and after health education. It focuses on interest in health occupations, the number of students taking and graduating from postsecondary health programs along with their socio-demographic characteristics and those of the faculty teaching these programs, the labour market experiences of recent graduates from these programs - including their mobility after graduation - as well as the ongoing participation of health workers in formal and informal training.

  Release date: 2008-10-10

  ---

• 4. Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2008316

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  We analyse the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of intergenerational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian-born children, and one third as strong as for the general population. Parental earnings are not correlated with years of schooling for second-generation children and, if anything, are negatively correlated. Finally, we find that the intergenerational transmission of education has not changed across the birth cohorts of the post-war period.

  Release date: 2008-10-02

  ---

• 5. Delayed transitions of young adults Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X200700410311

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  The transition to adulthood is often viewed as a period where young people move by stages into adult roles: completing their schooling, leaving their parents' home, acquiring permanent work, finding a partner or spouse and becoming a parent. In recent years, social scientists have found that the transition to adulthood is taking longer to complete. Using census data to compare young adults in 1971 to those in 2001, it assesses just how lengthy the delay has become.

  Release date: 2007-12-11

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• 6. Has Higher Education Among Young Women Substantially Reduced the Gender Gap in Employment and Earnings? Archived

  Articles and reports: 11F0019M2007301

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  Young women have gained considerable ground on young men in terms of educational attainment in the 1990s. The objective of this study is to assess the role of rapidly rising educational attainment among young women in raising their relative position in the labour market. The findings suggest that the educational trends have not contributed towards a decline in the full-time employment gap. Nevertheless, they have contributed towards a decline in the gender earnings gap, especially in the 1990s. However, university-educated women have lost ground to university-educated men. This is likely due to the fact that men and women continued to choose traditional disciplines during the 1990s, but only male-dominated disciplines saw improvements in average earnings.

  Release date: 2007-06-12

  ---

• 7. Human Capital and Canadian Provincial Standards of Living Archived

  Articles and reports: 89-552-M2006014

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This paper examines the role of human capital accumulation in explaining the relative levels of income per capita across Canadian provinces. We use principally two different types of human capital indicators based respectively on university attainment and literacy test scores. A synthetic time series of the average literacy level of labour market entrants for each period between 1951 and 2001 is constructed from the demographic profile of literacy test scores taken from the 2003 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey. The percentage of the working-age population holding a university degree is available since 1951 from the census figures. Our main results are the following. First, both human capital indicators are strong predictors of the relative levels of per capita income (minus government transfers) across provinces, along with the relative rates of urbanization and specific shocks in Alberta and Quebec. Second, the skills acquired by one extra year of schooling result in an increase in per capita income of around 7.3 percent. Third, we find that our literacy indicator does not outperform the university attainment indicator. This contrasts sharply with our recent result found at the cross-country level (Coulombe, Tremblay, and Marchand [2004]) and suggests substantial measurement error in cross-country schooling data. Fourth, by focusing on regional economies that have similar levels of social infrastructure and social development, our analysis provides potentially more reliable estimates of the contribution of human capital accumulation to relative living standards.

  Release date: 2006-04-05

  ---

• 8. 30 years of education: Canada's language groups Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X20030036701

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This article examines how the educational profiles of francophones, anglophones and allophones have changed over the past 30 years, and the factors that have contributed to many of these changes.

  Release date: 2003-12-09

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• 9. Update on education Archived

  Articles and reports: 11-008-X20030036703

  Geography: Canada

  Description:

  This article examines the changing educational attainment profile of Canadians using census data.

  Release date: 2003-12-09

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