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Useful facts about Canada Tech, Canada Tech Educatiion and Canada Women In Tech:

Canada Tech Fast Facts

• Canada’s information and communications technology (ICT) professional workforce grew from about 650,000 to 800,000 over the past 10 years. From entrepreneurs to consulting firms to hospitals, organizations can’t find enough people with the tech skills they need.

• 3% was the tech professional jobless rate in June 2011 - near full employment compared to 7.4% for the entire Canadian workforce.

• 45% of tech professionals don't work in the tech sector. They work in every other industry - including entertainment, construction, manufacturing, banking and government.

• 106,000 ICT workers will need to be hired between 2011 and 2016 by Canadian employers. Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Outlook for Human Resources in the ICT Labour Market, 2011–2016

• 1 million – the shortage of skilled workers forecasted by 2020 while an estimated 40% of all new jobs created in the skilled trades and technology industries.

  Conference Board of Canada Impending shortage of skilled trade and technology  workers and the growing career opportunities available to youth

• 1 - number of qualified engineering and computer new grads for every seven job openings in Toronto. Research and Innovation Jobs

• 47% of all workers in ICT occupations are in Ontario. Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Outlook for Human Resources in the ICT Labour Market, 2011–2016

• 100 of Canada’s 250 largest information and communications technology (ICT) companies are located in the Toronto Region.  Toronto Region Research Alliance Reports

• 30% growth of Canada’s information and communications technology (ICT) industry since 2001. Toronto Region Research Alliance Reports

• 261,000 Canadians are employed as a result of the wireless industry with an average salary level of $60,031. Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association Wireless Facts & Figures

• 43% of Canadian firms plan to increase IT department staff in 2012 with 80% committed to hiring full-time positions. Hays Compensation, Benefits Recruitment and Retention Guide, Canadian IT Hiring Study Suggest Career Paths Unclear

• 82% increase over one year in U.S. hiring demand for tech talent with mobile skills. WANTED Analytics

• 2,500 – jobs openings at any given moment at technology companies in Waterloo Region. Communitech

• $108,398 – average salary of information systems manager in the Toronto Region. Toronto Region Research Alliance Report 2012 Research and Innovation Jobs

• $92,334 – average salary of data analyst in the Toronto Region. Toronto Region Research Alliance Report 2012 Research and Innovation Jobs

• $86,479 – average salary of web designer and developer in the Toronto Region. Toronto Region Research Alliance Report 2012 Research and Innovation Jobs

• 16,000 people are employed in Canada’s video game industry which is expected to grow 17% in the next two years. Entertainment Software Association of Canada

Canada Tech Education

• 10,000 jobs are created a year by the business-technology sector alone, while university programs turn out only 2,000 related grads.

• 10% increase in the number of students applying to university engineering programs in 2012. Ontario Universities Application Centre.  Preliminary Undergraduate Application Statistics

• 1 -  the number of qualified engineering and computer new grads for every seven job openings in the Toronto regions. Toronto Region Research Alliance Report 2012 Research and Innovation Jobs

• 10x - web designers and database analysts jobs have approximately 10 times less than the number of graduates they need in the Toronto Region. Toronto Region Research Alliance Report 2012 Research and Innovation Jobs

• 4 out of 10 senior year university students have done a practicum, internship, field experience, co-op or clinical assignment. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada - How universities are producing the workforce Canada needs

Canada Women in Tech

• 25% of the ICT work force are women and there has been virtually no change in the share of women in ICT employment over the past decade. Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Trends in ICT Labor Market (Stats Canada)

• 25.1% of Canadian undergraduate students in mathematics, computer in information sciences are women - Enrolment Statistics in Canada Women in Engineering and Science

• 0% increase in the share of women in university enrolments in mathematics and computer and information sciences from 1992 to 2009. At the graduate level, the share of women appears to have declined. Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) Trends in ICT Labor Market (Stats Canada)

• 12% of the video game development workforce in the UK are women - a percentage reflected by similar surveys in Canada and the U.S. – Tiga  Game Changers: The Women Who Make Video Games