Table 5
Percentage of people who earned a high school diploma, by age and province or territory, 2006

Table 5
Percentage of people who earned a high school diploma, by age and province or territory, 2006

Table summary
This table displays the results of percentage of people who earned a high school diploma. This information is grouped by province or territory appearing as row headers and by 18 years, 19 years, 20 years, 25 years, women, men appearing as column headers, calculated using percentage as a unit of measure.
Province or territory 18 years 19 years 20 years 25 years
Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men
percentage
Canada 65.8 58.3 84.0 77.4 86.5 81.2 90.2 86.1
Newfoundland and Labrador 60.0 51.1 83.1 75.6 80.7 79.1 88.0 82.7
Prince Edward Island 70.2 52.3 87.5 80.8 89.6 78.2 92.4 83.2
Nova Scotia 54.8 44.4 84.6 76.8 88.6 81.4 90.4 85.1
New Brunswick 60.6 51.7 86.7 77.9 89.0 83.4 91.1 85.1
Quebec 79.0 68.0 83.6 75.0 86.4 77.8 90.1 84.6
Ontario 62.9 55.2 84.8 77.8 88.3 83.3 92.0 88.9
Manitoba 55.3 48.2 77.9 72.4 78.3 73.8 83.7 79.1
Saskatchewan 50.5 44.2 75.5 71.6 78.9 77.0 84.8 81.4
Alberta 61.8 59.0 82.1 77.5 81.8 79.1 86.2 82.9
British Columbia 68.1 64.1 88.6 84.4 90.6 86.8 92.5 88.6
Yukon Territory 63.1 48.2 74.4 76.3 91.8 83.1 79.2 87.0
Northwest Territories 41.3 28.3 61.8 53.8 60.5 55.2 73.2 75.8
Nunavut 14.6 13.6 22.7 21.7 27.4 21.3 52.0 47.0
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006.
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