Table 6
Impact on university attendance of trajectory of student perceptions of education required

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Impact on university attendance of trajectory of student perceptions of education required
  Knowledge of university degree requirement Attended university
Student perceptions at age 15 Student perceptions at age 17
      coefficient standard error
Pathways  
State 1 No university degree No university degree -0.3704 *** 0.0435
State 2 No university degree University degree -0.1690 *** 0.0380
State 3 University degree No university degree -0.3198 *** 0.0479
State 4 University degree University degree Omitted Omitted
*
p<0.1
**
p<0.05
***
p<0.01
Note(s):
Only students who wanted a job requiring a university degree at age 15 and 17 are included in the sample. This includes 3,348 youth. The model is estimated by ordinary least squares and includes the covariates listed in Table 2, as well as school fixed effects. Note that school marks at ages 15 and 17 are interacted.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A.
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