Human Resources committee  I'm not aware if it's been done. I will verify whether it's been done and see what it take to do that analysis, and then I will do that.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Let me restate that. It's the effect on immigrants' income of not having their credentials recognized?

Human Resources committee  You could do a comparison between certain ones whose credentials...for example, engineers. You could go by occupation and look at those incomes versus incomes for others. There are probably things you could do analytically. I don't think we would be able to say that this group of immigrants specifically has all those educational qualifications that are not recognized in Canada.

Human Resources committee  I don't think there's a particular reason. I'm not sure about literacy rates for seniors and how they related to the overall population. This slide was really meant to highlight demographics where literacy looked like it was important in terms of their risk of low income. It may be related, but it wasn't highlighted for this slide, sorry.

Human Resources committee  That is the work of our policy department colleagues, to recommend strategies to improve the situation, so I think we will leave that to them.

Human Resources committee  They are correlated with income. Of course there's a range of education and income levels in each of these groups, but we find that where there is an investment in education, there is an equalization. One of my slides showed how as education among aboriginals increased, their incomes became more like the average incomes in the population.

Human Resources committee  I wanted to put that in, because I was once asked whether, if tuition fees were lower, more people would get an education. Are people not going on to post-secondary because of the costs? It looks more as though people still are. Enrolments are increasing, but people are coming out with a huge debt at the end of the day.

Human Resources committee  Recent analysis I have looked at on that topic suggests— for example, I mentioned at the beginning of my presentation the innovative work we're doing to try to understand pathways to education. In the Maritimes, we did that as our pilot. If you look at cohorts as they graduate, the 2006 cohort, the 2007 cohort, and so on, and you look at their first-year earnings in the labour market, you see that first-year graduates in the later cohort are earning less than those from the early cohort were earning.

Human Resources committee  We do. We have those figures. I would have put them in if I'd had more than seven minutes. You do see a difference. The higher quintiles have greater savings, but they're not insignificant savings for those in the lowest areas.

Human Resources committee  I'd have to check and get back to you.

Human Resources committee  I didn't put these data into the presentation, but this work has definitely been done. The impact of post-secondary education remains after controlling for other factors. I don't know if you want to add anything, Klarka, on that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here this morning. I am going to go through the presentation, which I believe was distributed. In the centre for education statistics at StatsCan, we are currently undertaking a number of innovative new initiatives around data for education that will help us better understand the pathways people are taking through the education system, through college, university, or the trades, and on into the labour market.

Status of Women committee  No, not at this time.

Status of Women committee  There are a lot of data already available. I know that we do have a representative on this group. I've looked through some of the documents. I know that there is already beginning to be some thinking about where the sources of data would come from. It probably won't just be from Statistics Canada.