Le present document de recherche revele que les antecedents familiaux (niveau de scolarite des parents, type de famille, ethnicite, lieu de residence) exercent des effets importants, directs et indirects, sur la participation aux etudes postsecondaires. Les effets indirects des antecedents...

Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...

This paper examines the extent to which the relationship between participation in post-secondary education and family background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long-standing pattern that university participation rates are...

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...

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.

La presente etude comparative porte sur le role que jouent les antecedents familiaux dans l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Etant donne que les etudes postsecondaires sont financees d'une facon tres differente dans l'un et l'autre pays, les antecedents familiaux...

On etudie le rapport entre le revenu familial et la participation aux etudes postsecondaires afin de determiner dans quelle mesure les etudes superieures sont devenues l'apanage des familles aisees au Canada. L'analyse de deux ensembles de donnees semble indiquer que les membres de familles...

Le present document porte sur la mesure dans laquelle le lien entre la participation aux etudes postsecondaires et la situation familiale, soit le revenu des parents et le niveau de scolarite des parents, a evolue entre 1993 et 2001. Les resultats confirment une tendance de longue date selon...

This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity, location) has important direct and indirect effects on post-secondary participation. The indirect effects of background operate through a set of intermediate variables representing high school outcomes...

This comparative study investigates the role of family background characteristics in postsecondary access in Canada and the United States. Given that postsecondary schooling is funded very differently in the two countries, family background may play substantively different roles. The findings...