Comments:

Table 4 was included to provide a comparison of literacy and post-secondary levels of schooling among the provinces.

• the most predominant patterns are that men have a higher rate of illiteracy in all provinces except Quebec and the N.W.T. British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon have the lowest rates of functional illiteracy in Canada.

• in all provinces women are more likely to have complete or partial secondary schooling than men.

• women are less likely to go on to post-secondary education except in P.E.I., Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and the Yukon.

• women are more likely to go into post-secondary non-university programs, while men are more likely to go into university programs.