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Source: : Alison Taylor and Harvey Krahn. 2005. "Aiming
high: Educational aspirations of visible minority immigrant youth." Canadian
Social Trends. Winter 2005. Number 79. Statistics Canada Catalogue number 11-008-XIE.
Results of the 2000 Youth in Transition Survey of 15-year-olds show that 84% of visible minority immigrant girls planned on attending university, compared to 63% of Canadian-born non-visible minority girls. The pattern holds for boys as well, with 75% of visible minority immigrant students reporting that they planned to attend university compared to 51% of their Canadian-born non-visible minority counterparts. These findings hold regardless of other characteristics such as family structure, region, community size and first language.