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Abstract (English)

This paper uses data from the four cycles of the Youth In Transitions Survey (YITS), Cohort A (who were 15 years old at the first data collection) to examine how the different post-secondary education (PSE) options facing youth across Canada affect the PSE participation rates of rural as compared to urban youth. The specific issues examined are: rural-urban differences in (a) PSE participation and (b) participation particularly in university, among those who attend some PSE. findings show that, apart from some important differences between Quebec (which has a very different PSE system) and other regions, much of the rural-urban difference in both PSE and university participation can be explained by characteristics of the students and their families in the different regions. There is little or no ruralurban difference in persistence to date, but, given their youth, as the respondents age, this pattern may change.

Abstract (French)

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