Manitoba tops for post-secondary jobs: StatsCan
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WINNIPEG — University and college students in Manitoba are more likely to work part-time during the school year and work those jobs for longer hours than post-secondary students elsewhere in Canada.
Statistics Canada released those surprising numbers Wednesday in a wide-ranging survey of student jobs — surprising, since Manitoba has the country’s third-lowest tuition rates and a higher percentage of students stay in the province than anywhere else in Canada.
StatsCan says that slightly more than 50 per cent of our post-secondary students work during the school year, at a national-high 18 hours per week.
While Manitoba’s five per cent tuition jump this September is within a fraction of being Canada’s highest this year, StatsCan’s data are based on last year, when Manitoba tuition rose 4.5 per cent after a decade frozen at 1999 levels.
StatsCan found that students 20 to 24 are more likely to work during the school year than those 19 and younger, and that women are more likely to have a part-time job. However, men work longer hours on average than women.
But StatsCan says there is no appreciable difference in part-time work between students living at home and those living on their own.
The federal agency says that one in two college and university students now works during the school year, compared to one in four two decades ago.
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