Difference between highest level of educational attainment and completer/leaver status This report explores the education and employment experiences of those who have a high school diploma or equivalent (“completers”) and those who were not attending school at the time of the survey and had not completed high school (“leavers”). [...] The majority reported they returned to school because they “realized the value of an education/wanted a diploma.” •. At the time of the survey, 28% of First Nations people living off reserve, 58% of Inuit and 23% of Métis aged 18 to 44 were not attending high school and had not met the requirements for a high school diploma (“leavers”). [...] The target population was people living in Canada who were aged 6 or older as of February 1, 2012; who identified themselves as First Nations, Métis or Inuit in the 2011 NHS; and who were not living in a First Nations community at the time of the NHS. [...] At the time of the survey, 80% of off‑reserve First Nations people and 74% of Métis resided inside a Census Metropolitan Area (an area with a population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core) or Census Agglomeration (an area with an urban core population of at least 10,000); 74% of Inuit resided in one of the four regions collectively known as Inuit Nunangat (Nunatsiav