Open AccessThe Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977–2003)
Author(s) -
Louis N. Christofides,
Michael Hoy,
L. Yang
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v39i2.483
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , higher education , order (exchange) , demographic economics , sociology , economic growth , political science , psychology , economics , communication , finance
The decision to attend university is influenced by a large set of factors, ranging from economic considerations that affect affordability to family characteristics such as parental education levels. We examine the relationship between university participation and various economic and non-economic variables over the past twenty-five years in Canada. We quantify the importance of the various factors in the data sets available to us in order to understand trends in university participation and, in particular, to take account of the increasingly greater propensity of young women than men to attend university.