This report is part of a series of documents released in conjunction with the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 to 2024) and Black History Month. It aims to provide insight into some of the key socioeconomic characteristics of Canada's Black communities. The first report in this series titled "Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An Overview," was released in 2019 and highlighted both the demographic characteristics and diversity of this population. Among others, the report demonstrated that the Black population which represents close to 1.2 million people in 2016, is not only diverse, but also young and growing in size. To obtain a more comprehensive portrait of this population, this second report presents indicators related to education, employment, income, family structures and perceptions using data from the census and the General Social Survey (GSS). This report first looks at the education characteristics of the Black population, which are associated with several other aspects of their socioeconomic situation. An analysis of the highest level of educational attainment was disaggregated by sex and immigrant status, followed by data on the educational expectations and aspirations of young Black individuals. The Black population's labour market outcomes are the focus of the second part of this booklet. In addition to employment, unemployment and income indicators, there are also data presented on work experiences, including their perceived experience of discrimination and their level of satisfaction. Information on coping with life's difficulties and perceptions of the future are presented in the third part of this report. Some socioeconomic indicators are then presented for selected census metropolitan areas (CMA), which show that, far from being homogeneous, the situation of the Black population varies greatly from one part of the country to another. [Written in collaboration with René Houle and Martin Turcotte. For "Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An Overview," see ED605380.]