Table 6
Estimated relationship between wages and salaries and high school certification — International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (2003)

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Estimated relationship between wages and salaries and high school certification — International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (2003)
Table summary
This table displays regression results from three different models that estimate the relationship between the highest level of educational attainment and wages and salaries. The row headers describe the model considered. The column headers describe the coefficient for the high school attainment variable and its standard error.
  Men and women combined
  coefficient standard error
Model 1 – Base controls 5,827 † 3,057
Model 2 – Model 1 controls plus paternal/maternal education 5,726 † 3,020
Model 3 – Model 2 controls plus document/prose literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving 5,697 † 3,041
†
significantly different from reference category (p<0.10)
Note(s):
The sample consists of 1,314 individuals between the ages of 26 and 45 with no postsecondary studies. Wages and salaries are expressed in 2010 constant dollars. Ordinary least squares models are estimated. All models are pooled across men and women. The base controls include variables denoting years of schooling, sex, age, age squared, Aboriginal people, and first official language learned and still understood, and province of birth.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (2003).
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