Educational Attainment

Question

I have a request from a grad student who wants educational attainment data for Saskatoon. I've shown him how to use the community profiles to extract data for the entire city, but he'd like to find data at the CT or neighbourhood level. Is education data available at that geographic level without his resorting to a custom tabulation?

Answer

The following topic-based tabulations on Highest certificate, level or degree may meet the student's needs. They are available at the Census Tract (CT) level online and at the Dissemination Area (DA) level on the DLI FTP site.

• Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (14), Location of Study (5), Major Field of Study - Classification of Instructional Programs, 2000 (14), Age Groups (10A) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data 97-560-XCB2006016

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=93620&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=755&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

• Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (7), Location of Study (5), Major Field of Study - Classification of Instructional Programs, 2000 (14) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data - 97-560-XCB2006015

(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=97-560-X2006015&lang=eng - available on the DLI FTP)

• Attendance at School (3), Highest Certificate, Diploma or Degree (13), Age Groups (10A) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over of Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data 97-560-XCB2006037

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=97687&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=755&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

Other education-related topic based tabulations are available at:

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/St-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=75&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= (any DA level files described in this section are available on the DLI FTP site).

The education data in the 2006 Census CT and DA level cumulative profiles may also be of interest to the student:

• Profile for Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts, 2006 Census 94-581-XCB2006005

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/rel/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=1&LANG=E&A=R&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=001&GID=759344&GK=10&GRP=1&O=D&PID=94537&PRID=0&PTYPE=89103&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=81&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0)

• Profile for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas, 2006 Census 94-581-XCB2006002 (available on the DLI FTP - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=94-581-X2006002&lang=eng)

The student may also wish to refer to the Education Reference Guide, 2006 Census

(http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/rp-guides/education-eng.cfm) which discusses changes to education-related concepts in the 2006 Census. These underwent important changes in 2006.

Education concepts are also defined in the 2006 Census dictionary: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/ref/dict/index-eng.cfm