This report was prepared for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Analysis and Research Branch, State Government Victoria. Drawing on data from the 2003 Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY), the report addresses the second research question of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project (LP120100212): What are the determinants of the transitions that underpin particular choices along these pathways? Underlying the importance of this analysis, there is substantive evidence captured within our previous research commissioned by Regional Development Victoria (R
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This report was prepared for the Department of Planning and Community Development, Analysis and Research Branch, State Government Victoria. Drawing on data from the 2003 Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY), the report addresses the second research question of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project (LP120100212): What are the determinants of the transitions that underpin particular choices along these pathways? Underlying the importance of this analysis, there is substantive evidence captured within our previous research commissioned by Regional Development Victoria (RDV) that points to significant differences in educational attainment between young people brought up in metropolitan compared to those raised in regional Victoria. This research indicates that young people raised in regional Victoria are 1.13 times less likely to complete Year 12 and are 3.8 times less likely to complete a Bachelor degree than their metropolitan counterparts. Conversely, regional students are 1.26 times more likely to not complete a post-school qualification and 2.5 times more likely to enter full-time employment immediately after completing school than their metropolitan counterparts.
This report aims to advance our existing knowledge by redressing these gaps in two ways: First, it seeks to determine the factors that influence the post-school educational choices of young people in an integrated multi-level analytical framework that simultaneously considers the relative importance of individual, family, school and residential-area factors on the decision to: (1) undertake university studies; (2) engage in vocational education; or (3) enter the workforce immediately after leaving school. Second, this report seeks to identify differences in the factors shaping the post-school educational choices of three groups of young people: regional movers, regional stayers and metropolitan stayers.
Edited excerpts from publication.
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