Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada - Statscan publication
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada
January 2008
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This issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication, Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, contains two articles.
The first article, "Literacy profile of off-reserve First Nations and Métis people living in urban Manitoba and Saskatchewan: Results from the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey 2003," presents a broad portrait of the literacy proficiency of two specific segments of Canada's Aboriginal population. These are the First Nations and Métis adult populations living off-reserve in urban parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The article found that overall literacy levels remained low for First Nations adults compared with their Métis and non-Aboriginal counterparts.
The second article, "Taking time off between high school and postsecondary education: Determinants and early labour market outcomes" uses data from the 2004 Youth in Transition Survey to compare employment and earnings of young adults who delayed the start of postsecondary studies with those who went directly to a postsecondary education program following high school graduation. It found that what matters most is completing a postsecondary certificate, diploma or degree, not whether youth had delayed starting their postsecondary studies following high school.
The January 2008 issue of Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, Vol. 4, no. 5 (81-004-XIE, free) is now available from the Publications module of our website. From Free internet publications, under Education, training and learning, choose Education Matters.
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