| 1 | A | B | C | D | E |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | predicted probability of being overqualified (working in a job requiring high school education or less) among workers aged 25 to 64 with a university degree, 2012 |  |  |  |  |
| 3 |  | high skilled |  | low skilled |  |
| 4 |  | literacy | numeracy | literacy | numeracy |
| 5 |  | percent |  |  |  |
| 6 | gender |  |  |  |  |
| 7 | male | 5.5 | 5.4 | 18.6 | 18.0 |
| 8 | female | 6.8 | 6.1 | 15.2 | 14.3 |
| 9 | age group |  |  |  |  |
| 10 | 25 to 39 | 6.6 | 5.9 | 16.9 | 16.7 |
| 11 | 40 to 54 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 16.6 | 14.7 |
| 12 | 55 to 64 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 16.2 | 15.5 |
| 13 | place of birth, location of highest degree |  |  |  |  |
| 14 | born in canada | 6.0 | 5.7 | 16.1 | 13.8 |
| 15 | foreign-born / canadian degree | 2.6 | 2.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| 16 | foreign-born / foreign degree | 13.6 | 11.1 | 25.3 | 27.5 |
| 17 | field of study |  |  |  |  |
| 18 | stem | 4.6 | 4.4 | 11.2 | 11.4 |
| 19 | humanities, languages, arts | 14.6 | 12.3 | 30.1 | 29.5 |
| 20 | social science, business, law | 7.2 | 6.4 | 24.2 | 21.8 |
| 21 | teacher and related | 5.5 | 5.9 | 12.9 | 9.8 |
| 22 | health and welfare | 3.0 | 3.4 | 12.5 | 9.4 |
| 23 | province/region |  |  |  |  |
| 24 | atlantic | 6.6 | 6.7 | 20.9 | 15.0 |
| 25 | quebec | 6.1 | 5.8 | 15.5 | 14.7 |
| 26 | ontario | 5.2 | 4.6 | 16.3 | 16.1 |
| 27 | manitoba and saskatchewan | 8.1 | 8.5 | 24.9 | 18.2 |
| 28 | alberta | 8.3 | 8.0 | 13.2 | 12.7 |
| 29 | british columbia and the territories | 6.9 | 6.5 | 19.7 | 17.6 |
| 30 | mother tongue |  |  |  |  |
| 31 | english | 6.2 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 10.3 |
| 32 | french | 3.3 | 2.8 | 7.2 | 8.6 |
| 33 | other | 9.8 | 9.8 | 24.6 | 22.9 |
| 34 | lives with spouse/partner |  |  |  |  |
| 35 | no | 8.6 | 8.2 | 25.4 | 22.0 |
| 36 | yes | 5.5 | 5.1 | 14.5 | 13.8 |
| 37 | has a child in the home |  |  |  |  |
| 38 | no | 6.0 | 5.5 | 13.5 | 13.8 |
| 39 | yes | 6.2 | 5.9 | 18.0 | 16.5 |
| 40 | extent of long-term illness/health problem |  |  |  |  |
| 41 | no health limitation | 6.0 | 5.6 | 16.0 | 15.3 |
| 42 | illness exists but is not limiting | 5.0 | 4.5 | 18.4 | 18.1 |
| 43 | illness is limiting, including severely | 8.4 | 9.0 | 19.6 | 15.4 |
| 44 | aboriginal status |  |  |  |  |
| 45 | not of aboriginal descent | 6.1 | 5.7 | 16.5 | 15.5 |
| 46 | of aborginal descent | 9.6 | 8.7 | 29.1 | 28.0 |
| 47 | parental education |  |  |  |  |
| 48 | both have less than a high school diploma | 4.7 | 4.0 | 13.6 | 13.9 |
| 49 | at least one has a high school diploma | 5.9 | 5.3 | 23.8 | 21.6 |
| 50 | at least one has a postsecondary education / less than a bachelor's degree | 7.5 | 6.7 | 16.4 | 17.6 |
| 51 | at least one has a university degree | 5.9 | 5.9 | 15.5 | 12.4 |
| 52 | number of books in the home at age 16 |  |  |  |  |
| 53 | 25 or less | 6.3 | 5.8 | 17.7 | 16.1 |
| 54 | 26 to 100 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 15.8 | 14.1 |
| 55 | more than 100 | 5.9 | 5.4 | 16.6 | 17.0 |
| 56 |  | number |  |  |  |
| 57 | unweighted sample size | 3,232 | 2,942 | 1,043 | 1,333 |
| 58 | weighted sample size | 3,010,723 | 2,737,637 | 908,558 | 1,181,644 |

Question: among those who had higher literacy skills,who were more likely to be overqualified, foreign-born workers who received their highest university degree outside canada or canadian-born workers?
Answer: foreign-born / foreign degree

Question: among those who had higher literacy skills,who had the lowest probability of being overqualified.
Answer: foreign-born / canadian degree

Question: within the lower skilled population of the numeracy model,what were the percentages of foreign-born workers who earned their degree in canada and those who were born in canada respectively?
Answer: 3.8, 13.8

Question: within the lower skilled population in both models,what were the probabilities of the foreign-born and foreign-educated had respectively?
Answer: 25.3, 27.5

Question: within the higher skilled population in both models,who had greater probability of being overqualified,graduates of humanities, languages and arts programs or graduates of stem programs respectively?
Answer: humanities, languages, arts

Question: among workers with higher literacy skills,what was the gap between graduates of humanities, languages and arts programs and graduates of stem programs.
Answer: 10

Question: among workers with lower literacy skills,who had a significantly greater probability of being overqualified,graduates of social science, business and law programs or their lower-skilled counterparts in stem programs.
Answer: social science, business, law

Question: among university graduates with higher literacy levels,who were the least likely to be overqualified.
Answer: french

Question: among graduates with lower skill levels,what was the percentage of those whose mother tongue was a language other than english or french?
Answer: 24.6