Aboriginal peoples and postsecondary education in Canada

This does not seem to be the case in Winnipeg or many cities of the West.4 As a final snapshot of the socioeconomic situation of Aboriginal people in Canada today, Figure 6 shows the relative levels of unemployment of Aboriginal people compared to the whole population in each province and territory. [...] Figure 8 shows the change from 1996 to 2001 in the percentage of the total and the Aboriginal population 15 years of age and over in attaining each of the five categories of highest level of schooling shown. [...] The Aboriginal population is approaching parity in the colleges, and this is reflected in the data shown in Figure 7. In 1996, 25 percent of the total population and 21 percent of the Aboriginal population 15 years of age and over completed non-university PSE. [...] Therefore, the picture of change may be clouded by the number of older people in the population for whom we would not expect the highest level of schooling to change in the five years between the censuses. [...] The rate within both the Aboriginal and the general population has fallen, in the case of the Aboriginal population to the very low level of 2 percent.