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Side menu bar Canadian Labour Market at a Glance 71-222-XWE Table of contents Objective and data sources Glossary References More information PDF version 		Table of contents > Section F - Educational attainment and training >

Youth attending school full-time

The proportion of young adults going to school full time is levelling off

  • After significant increases throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, the proportion of youth aged 15 to 24 years attending school full time reached a peak of 58% in 1997 and declined slightly in the following years to 56% in 2003. This is much higher than the full-time school attendance rate of 41% in 1976.

  • Although school attendance for teenagers (aged 15 to 19) appears to have declined slightly in recent years, this may be partially due to the'double cohort' in Ontario: the province eliminated grade 13 and twice as many students graduated from high school during the 2002/03 academic year, producing fiercer competition for placement in postsecondary institutions.

  • After more than a decade of increasing enrolment among young adults aged 20 to 24, the proportion of young adults engaged in full-time schooling levelled off in the late 1990s and has been little changed for five years.


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