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Table 7: Demographic characteristics of participants1

  Participants1 882
  Respondents2 610
  Response rate 69.2%

    Number Percentage
Age
  17 or younger 7 1.1%
  18-29 32 5.2%
  30-49 120 19.7%
  50-64 158 25.9%
  65 and older 68 11.1%
  Not specified 225 36.9%
  Total 610 100.0%
Education
  Less than secondary school 6 1.0%
  Secondary 18 3.0%
  Some higher education 57 9.3%
  First higher education degree 88 14.4%
  Some post-graduate 81 13.3%
  Masters 101 16.6%
  Doctorate 23 3.8%
  Not specified 236 38.7%
  Total 610 100.0%
Language3
  English 281 46.1%
  French 38 6.2%
  Not specified 291 47.7%
  Total 610 100.0%

1 Number of participants counted at the meetings (does not include IJC personnel or contractors) and who registered for the Web dialogue (includes IJC personnel or contractors who registered for the dialogue).

2 Respondents to a voluntary, non-identifying survey that was handed out at the meetings and on registration in the Web dialogue. Not all those who attended the meetings completed the survey, though all the Web dialogue participants did. Some respondents did not answer all the questions.

3 Only respondents who self-identified as Canadian were asked to identify their first official language.

 

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