Canadian young people are more educated and live with their parents longer, unemployment is always higher among young people, and there’s been a decline in full time employment among young people. These are some of the facts that have come from a study by Canada’s data gathering agency, Statistics Canada.
Using the latest data from 2011, and comparing it to previous years, Statistics Canada also found that “In 1971, young people age 15 to 24 accounted for 19% of the total Canadian population, but, by 2011, this proportion had fallen to 13% and could drop to 11% by 2031 according to a demographic projection scenario.”
In their conclusion, the authors of the study write: “Life today, both social and economic, for younger Canadians is very different than it was for their parents at the same age. Today’s young people represent an increasingly smaller proportion of the total population and are more likely to be born outside Canada or have parents who were born outside Canada. Young people are also more educated but are transitioning to the labour market later in life.”
More information:
Statistics Canada study – What has changed for young people in Canada? – here
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