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Employment Rates (Age 15 to 64) by Highest Level of Education, Alberta and Canada

Description

This Alberta Official Statistic describes the employment rates of persons aged 15 years and over by highest level of education for Alberta and Canada from 1990 to 2014. The educational classifications are '0-8 years', ‘some high school’, 'high school graduate', ‘some post-secondary’, 'post-secondary certificate or diploma', ‘bachelor’s degree’ and 'above bachelor’s degree'. Generally, persons with higher educational qualifications have higher employment rates than those with lower qualifications.

Updated

June 5, 2015

Tags
AOS Alberta Official Statistics Employment Rates
Resources

Title and Dataset Information

Date Modified

2015-06-05

Update Frequency

Annual

Publisher / Creator Information

Creator
Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour (2013-2016)
Publisher

Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour (2013-2016)

Subject Information

Topic
Education - Adult and Continuing Employment and Labour
Start Date

1990-01-01

End Date

2014-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Alberta, Canada

Resource Dates

Date Created

2015-05-13

Date Added to catalogue

2015-05-13T19:26:10.856536

Date Issued

2013-05-28

Date Modified

2015-06-05

Audience information

General Public

Language

English (Canadian)

Identifiers

Usage / Licence

Usage Considerations

Educational attainment is the highest level of schooling completed. Questions relating to educational attainment were changed in 1990, to better capture the relationship between educational attainment and labour market outcomes.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household survey carried out monthly by Statistics Canada. It provides estimates of employment and unemployment which are among the most timely and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy. The LFS is also a major source of information on the personal characteristics of the working-age population, including age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and family characteristics.

0-8 years: Primary education, grade 8 or lower. Some High School: Attended but did not complete secondary school. High School Graduate: Received a high school diploma. Some postsecondary: These represent those who worked toward, but did not complete, a degree, certificate or diploma from an educational institution, including a university beyond the secondary level. Postsecondary Certificate or Diploma: Completed a certificate (including a trade certificate) or diploma from an educational institution beyond the secondary level.

Users may notice an “x” value in the CSV file. These denote figures that have been suppressed to meet confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.

Statistics Canada has an established history of applying a standard revision to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates following the release of postcensal population estimates from each census of population. This revision includes an update of the LFS estimates to reflect the most recent population estimates; an update of geographic boundaries; methodological enhancements to imputation; as well as an update of seasonal adjustment.

The latest revision has impacted the estimates for 2001 to 2014 and the revised figures have been released in late January and early February 2015.

Licence

Open Government Licence - Alberta

Contact

Contact Name

Office of Statistics and Information

Contact Email

osi.support@gov.ab.ca

Contact Other

(780) 427-2071