Career Decision-Making Patterns of Canadian Youth and Associated Postsecondary Educational Outcomes. Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheet

Institution	Statistics Canada
Titel	Career Decision-Making Patterns of Canadian Youth and Associated Postsecondary Educational Outcomes. Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheet
Quelle	(2015), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1709-8653
ISBN	978-1-100-23117-4
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Career Choice; Decision Making; Foreign Countries; Career Planning; Age Differences; Outcomes of Education; Expectation; Adolescents; Young Adults; Postsecondary Education; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Parent Attitudes; Socioeconomic Status; Family Characteristics; National Surveys; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ausland; Karriereplanung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Expectancy; Erwartung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternverhalten; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Kanada
Abstract	The skills youth acquire at the end of their formal education are partly a reflection of the career plans and accompanying program choices they have made throughout their education. Whether these choices best meet Canadian labour market requirements has been the subject of considerable discussion and policy development over the past decade. The ability to influence the career planning choices of youth requires an understanding of how these choices are made and what factors influence the decision-making process. This fact sheet offers a brief examination of this topic. The analyses looked at the age at which Canadian youth begin to demonstrate consistency in their career decisions, and examined factors that may contribute to earlier or later consistency in career decision-making. It also compared the link between the educational outcomes of youth and the ages at which they demonstrated consistent career expectations between 15 and 25 years of age, to assess educational differences between those who showed consistency in their career decisions earlier, later, or not at all. While changes in the specific career expectations of youth are expected as they progress through adolescence, the concept of "consistency in expectations" can differentiate between individuals who are in the process of refining and progressing towards an identified career, compared to individuals who are reporting unrelated and varying career expectations. This fact sheet is based on longitudinal data from cycles 1 through 6 (2000 to 2010) of Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey (YITS). The data were collected every two years, from the same respondents starting at age 15 (YITS Cohort A, cycle 1). These youth were asked, "What kind of job or occupation would you be interested in having when you are about 30 years old?" They were asked the same question at ages 17, 21, 23 and 25 (cycles 2, 4, 5 and 6, respectively). This fact sheet has shown that career decision-making for the majority of Canadian youth is an on-going process, occurring throughout adolescence and typically lasting well into adulthood. Another finding was that consistency of career decisions was associated with postsecondary educational outcomes. Specifically, consistency was associated with a greater likelihood of entry to postsecondary education within 15 months of graduating secondary studies, and a higher level of educational attainment at age 25. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01