Status of Women committee  Yes, you mean some of the barriers, the reasons they did not. I could go back to see if some of the specific education surveys do that. You're sort of looking at reasons why people didn't do things, which are a little bit harder because what you need to do is find people who thought about a career choice and then decided not to do it.

Status of Women committee  The national household survey is really looking at taking a snapshot of the population at different points in time. There's a lot of value in the sort of surveys you're looking at. The snapshot is one thing. The other sort of survey you're talking about is looking beyond that snapshot and learning what the underlying issues are that are driving the decisions people make.

Status of Women committee  It wouldn't be appropriate just to speculate.

Status of Women committee  Don't ask statisticians to speculate without data.

Status of Women committee  It wouldn't be appropriate.

Status of Women committee  It's not something we've looked at as part of this presentation.

Status of Women committee  No, we can't....

Status of Women committee  Basically, right now it's an observation. There are different unemployment rates. One thing to note is that these unemployment rates are generally relatively low in and of themselves. At this point it's an observation. We'd have to do more studies to disentangle as to why.

Status of Women committee  That's an area I'm not familiar with, but we could get you a quick update on the status of that.

Status of Women committee  That's not something Statistics Canada could comment on. I believe that's something that ESDC would have commented on when they were here.

Status of Women committee  Again, I can't comment on that.

Status of Women committee  Not in this area. We're using standard—

Status of Women committee  It's a program for international student assessment, but it was looking at Canadian results, so equivalent information. It's taking advantage of an international evaluation.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  For this presentation, the national household survey data is an excellent source of information for national level data to look at information by occupation, gender, and field of study, which is why we were able to do that comparison of 2011 data to 1991 data. It's still a very rich source of data.