Linking Postsecondary Non-completion Rates and Labour Market Outcomes

The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) partnered with the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) to analyze data files from the Statistics Canada Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform, linking four datasets to develop descriptive and regression analyses: the Postsecondary Student Information System, the Registered Apprenticeship Information System, the T1. [...] The interaction term was used in regression analyses to help understand how the gap in earnings is influenced by completion and the amount of time spent in school. [...] The explanatory variables included in the model are categorical, and the reference group for each variable is in parentheses next to the bolded variable title. [...] The majority of explanatory variables included in the model — other than the elapsed time since the start of PSE enrolment — are categorical, and the reference group for each variable is in parentheses next to the bolded variable title. [...] The majority of explanatory variables included in 30 the model — other than the elapsed time since the start of PSE enrolment — are categorical, and the reference group for each variable is in parentheses next to the bolded variable title.