Education Dropouts. Quebec and Alberta Students Most Likely to Leave School

Quebec and Alberta College Students are more likely to leave their studies as are students who come from a single parent family and those who have a dropout episode in high school, according to a study by Statistics Canada.

A group of Canadian students, who were between the ages of 18 and 20 in 1999, were interviewed about where they stood in their education and labour market pathways in December 2005 when they were between 24 and 26.

Within the whole group, about 21% of these young adults who pursued postsecondary education had left their studies without graduating, as of December 2005.

This proportion varied from institution to institution. Among those who attended university, about 16% left their studies without graduating during this period. Among those who attended college/CEGEP, this proportion reached 25%; it was 22% among students who attended other types of postsecondary institutions.

A variety of factors were associated with leaving a postsecondary institution without graduating. For both college and university, men were more likely than women to leave their studies without graduating.

In addition, students who worked less than three hours per week on homework when they were in high school were more likely to leave their postsecondary studies compared with their high school counterparts who studied longer hours.

Analysis of the data, provided in the study, reveals that at the university level, students in Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia were more likely to leave their studies. Also, students whose parents started postsecondary education but never graduated were more likely to leave without graduating.

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