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Right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous?
| Right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous? | ||||||
| Elementary | Secondary | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls | Boys | All students | Girls | Boys | All students | |
| % | ||||||
| Right-handed | 83.8 | 80.2 | 82.0 | 86.2 | 81.6 | 84.0 |
| Left-handed | 8.9 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 8.5 | 10.3 | 9.4 |
| Ambidextrous | 7.4 | 9.2 | 8.3 | 5.3 | 8.1 | 6.6 |
| Source: Statistics Canada, Census at School, 2007/2008. | ||||||
