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