Comments on: #46 – Random Things I Learned on the Stats Canada website

By: drbethsnow

drbethsnow — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:33:21 +0000

D'oh! I can't believe I made that mistake! Good thing I have an Official Statistian (from the future) on staff to clear up such things!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:27:21 +0000

I'm not sure if you know this, but I love stats. Granted, the stats I love fall more into the realm of equations and symbols and wonderfully awesometastic greek letters. However, I also loves me tables of numbers that tell a story.

Anyway, I did notice one thing when reading this.

"For every woman who held a doctorate in either science or engineering in Canada in 2001, there were four men, according to a new study that profiles scientists and engineers with PhDs."

That would mean that 1/5 PhDs are women, not 1/4. Hence, you are even more rare! 1/5*128625=25725 women in Canada with PhDs.

Sunday morning fun with numbers (from the future). WOOT.

By: Sarah in Ottawa

Sarah in Ottawa — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:17:23 +0000

I think you're right; university educated women do wait longer to have kids (in Canada, anyway). We marry later, too.

My parents had me at 28 and 31, respectively, so they were the same ages as your parents when they had Nancy. Our Moms had professional jobs pre-baby, so perhaps that helped with the delay.

Word on the 'everyone in their 30s has kids now'. It's like a mini-babyboom! I only have 2 friends (both named Sarah) who had kids in their 20s – one at nearly 28 and one at nearly 29. The rest of us – 30s. Finishing school, marrying later/not at all, and career stuff all (anecdotally, anyway) led to this.