I don't have my notes from giving similar testimony yesterday, but I'll try to remember the numbers.
I think around one-third of the workforce has an occupational pension plan in Canada, which is a little bit below comparable countries. In the U.K., Ireland, and the United States that number would be around 40% to 45%. There's a smaller coverage of occupational plans.
On personal plans, Canada comes out rather better than somewhere like Ireland or the U.K. It's fairly similar to the United States in terms of coverage of RRSPs.
When it comes to contribution rates, it's very difficult to get data that would allow us to compare how much people are paying into these plans across countries, but our figures suggest that for people in defined contribution occupational plans, contribution rates are around 8% to 10% in the countries I mentioned--Canada, Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S. They are fairly similar.
The contributions to personal plans tend to be a lot lower. My feeling is that for Canada, on average, people with RRSPs are probably contributing something like 4% of their earnings to those plans, which is significantly less than people put into RRPs. I think that may well be similar to the average contribution rates for similar schemes in other countries.