Facts and Figures 2004

Level of study	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Number
Secondary or less	5,765	6,229	5,994	5,546	6,207	8,154	8,664	7,859	7,214	7,334
Trade	2,152	3,564	3,795	2,501	4,110	5,315	5,992	5,525	5,032	4,144
University	5,773	6,786	7,324	7,717	9,930	11,217	13,329	12,900	12,219	11,611
Other post-secondary	1,111	1,407	1,346	1,457	2,264	2,885	4,309	4,361	4,470	4,240
Other	1,100	1,715	2,246	2,603	2,880	2,909	3,664	3,014	2,236	2,236
Males	15,901	19,701	20,705	19,824	25,391	30,480	35,958	33,659	31,171	29,565
Secondary or less	5,897	6,245	6,049	5,911	6,297	7,811	8,418	7,550	7,180	6,790
Trade	2,381	3,684	4,103	2,757	3,944	5,208	5,901	5,581	4,990	4,007
University	5,429	6,469	7,225	7,526	8,960	10,913	12,224	11,748	10,379	10,083
Other post-secondary	1,357	1,545	1,478	1,506	2,295	2,841	3,784	3,980	3,843	3,406
Other	1,593	2,255	2,861	3,311	3,605	3,754	4,575	3,887	2,636	2,684
Females	16,657	20,198	21,716	21,011	25,101	30,527	34,902	32,746	29,028	26,970
Secondary or less	11,662	12,474	12,043	11,457	12,504	15,965	17,082	15,409	14,394	14,124
Trade	4,533	7,248	7,898	5,258	8,054	10,523	11,893	11,106	10,022	8,151
University	11,202	13,255	14,549	15,243	18,890	22,130	25,553	24,648	22,598	21,694
Other post-secondary	2,468	2,952	2,824	2,963	4,559	5,726	8,093	8,341	8,313	7,646
Other	2,693	3,970	5,107	5,914	6,485	6,663	8,239	6,901	4,872	4,920
Gender not stated	1	2	6	11	9	29	11	5	2	1
Total	32,559	39,901	42,427	40,846	50,501	61,036	70,871	66,410	60,201	56,536

Level of study	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Percentage distribution
Secondary or less	36.3	31.6	29.0	28.0	24.5	26.8	24.1	23.4	23.1	24.8
Trade	13.5	18.1	18.3	12.6	16.2	17.4	16.7	16.4	16.1	14.0
University	36.3	34.4	35.4	38.9	39.1	36.8	37.1	38.3	39.2	39.3
Other post-secondary	7.0	7.1	6.5	7.4	8.9	9.5	12.0	13.0	14.3	14.3
Other	6.9	8.7	10.9	13.1	11.3	9.5	10.2	9.0	7.2	7.6
Males	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Secondary or less	35.4	30.9	27.9	28.1	25.1	25.6	24.1	23.1	24.7	25.2
Trade	14.3	18.2	18.9	13.1	15.7	17.1	16.9	17.0	17.2	14.9
University	32.6	32.0	33.3	35.8	35.7	35.8	35.0	35.9	35.8	37.4
Other post-secondary	8.2	7.7	6.8	7.2	9.1	9.3	10.8	12.2	13.2	12.6
Other	9.6	11.2	13.2	15.8	14.4	12.3	13.1	11.9	9.1	10.0
Females	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Secondary or less	35.8	31.3	28.4	28.1	24.8	26.2	24.1	23.2	23.9	25.0
Trade	13.9	18.2	18.6	12.9	16.0	17.2	16.8	16.7	16.7	14.4
University	34.4	33.2	34.3	37.3	37.4	36.3	36.1	37.1	37.5	38.4
Other post-secondary	7.6	7.4	6.7	7.3	9.0	9.4	11.4	12.6	13.8	13.5
Other	8.3	10.0	12.0	14.5	12.8	10.9	11.6	10.4	8.1	8.7
Gender not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0