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Closing the Divide

5 Sep 2017

In particular, differences in education levels and the characteristics of the home environment explain the largest share of this gap. [...] Further, with large samples of immigrants and off-reserve Indigenous people, which include First Nations, Métis and Inuit, we can analyse the performance of a number of critical populations.2 To preview the central findings, the skills and labour market outcomes of Indigenous people show that literacy skills gaps are mainly driven through differences in level of education – many other causes are n [...] In all three domains of PIAAC results – literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments – Indigenous people, on average, scored less than non-Indigenous Canadians (Table 1).3 The gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are large in literacy as well as in numeracy: Indigenous people 1 The 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies measured [...] The variations in the skills gap between Indigenous and the rest of the population is not only related to levels of education. [...] Among the university educated, the statistically significant gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous in Ontario and the West disappears, but remains for Inuit in the North.
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9
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Toronto, ON, CA

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