Mahsi, Madam Speaker. Normally, this would be a statement for Friday, but I am not going to be here tomorrow, so I will make this today.
Yesterday, in the mail, we received a copy of the Statistics Quarterly, a document from the Bureau of Statistics, and it reports as of December 1993. In a cursory review of some of the statistics, I find some very interesting facts and numbers. I would like to go through some of them.
I note that our population as of June 1991 is 57,650, and of this population, 33 per cent of our population is under 14. Another interesting note is that three per cent, or 1,605 people, are 65 years and over.
Continuing on in the document, I note that our school enrolment has gone up from 1992 to 1993-94 by some 630 students, and of these, 17 per cent are in senior high school. Compared to that, though, the graduates who are graduating from senior high school are only about ten per cent of our students that enter senior high. Another little fact here is that our student assistance for post-secondary education has gone up, but I note that the mix from 1991-92 to 1992-93 has changed, whereas, more people are now going to university than there are going to technical school.
Another interesting fact is that federal old age security statistics show that, as of June 1, 1993, there were 1,668 people age 65 and over that were receiving some sort of old age security, and I find that interesting because when we look at the population it shows that we only have 1,605 people that are 65 years and over. There is a difference of some 63 people. Another interesting note...