Family Background and Access to Post-secondary Education: What Happened over the 1990s?

Christine Laporte (), Ross Finnie and Eric Lascelles

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract:

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

Keywords: Education; training and learning; Educational attainment; Equity and inclusion; Families; households and housing; Family history; Household; family and personal income; Income; pensions; spending and wealth; Society and community; Students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-18
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