ANALYSIS BY COUNTY

Antigonish County

Demographics:

47%of this group were in the below 40 age range, 23% in the 50 or above age range. 77% were married whereas only 23% had young children.

Only one of the women had less than high school graduation and she had her G.E.D. equivalency. 3 of the women or 23% had completed university. 77% were employed. These women as a whole represented the highest financial status. There were no women in the income levels below $15,000 per year and 46% were on a total family income of $30,000 or more.

85% of the women had attended some kind of formal learning session in the past two years.

It should be noted that this was a very small sample - only 13 women.

Desired Courses:

The 6 most frequently checked courses with the numbers in brackets were:

Obstacles:

This group - like the group as a whole had problems with courses being offered at inconvenient times - 92% of the women mentioned this. Lack of information available and lack of part-time courses were mentioned by 83% of the sample and lack of counselling services by 75%.