Participation in Census at school, by province and territory


	Elementary	Secondary	All students	All students	Canadian population, July 1, 2009
	number of students			%
Total	21,242	5,829	27,071	100	100
N.L.	36	5	41	0.2	1.5
P.E.I.	11	63	74	0.3	0.4
N.S.	579	309	888	3.3	2.8
N.B.	174	247	421	1.6	2.2
Que.	1,244	796	2,040	7.5	23.2
Ont.	13,278	2,838	16,116	59.5	38.7
Man.	514	158	672	2.5	3.6
Sask.	464	346	810	3.0	3.1
Alta.	3,489	833	4,322	16.0	10.9
B.C.	1,437	234	1,671	6.2	13.2
Y.T.	16	0	16	0.1	0.1
Notes: • There were no participants in the Northwest Territories or in Nunavut. • It is useful to compare the population of students participating in Census at school with the Canadian population. • The proportion of students in Ontario and Alberta is almost 50% more than the proportion of those provinces in the Canadian population. • The proportion of students in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan is almost equal to the proportion of these provinces in the Canadian population. • Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and British Columbia would need more student participants. • For more details, see the page on weighting.
Source: Statistics Canada, Census at School, 2009/2010.