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Right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous?
| Elementary | Secondary | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls | Boys | All students | Girls | Boys | All students | |
| % | ||||||
| Right-handed | 84.5 | 80.0 | 82.2 | 87.5 | 82.1 | 84.9 |
| Left-handed | 8.9 | 10.6 | 9.8 | 8.1 | 10.2 | 9.1 |
| Ambidextrous | 6.7 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 4.3 | 7.7 | 6.0 |
| Source: Statistics Canada, Census at School, 2008/2009. | ||||||
