Marc Frenette of Statistics Canada has published a study of postsecondary enrolment rates among 19-year-olds between 2001 and 2022. Overall, enrolment for 19-year-olds rose from 46.7% in 2001 to 59.5% in 2019, before declining to 58.3% in 2022. Frenette discusses the differences in these rates and rate changes between 19-year-olds from different parental income groups and from different regions of Canada. Among these differences, Frenette highlights how those in lower income quintiles saw greater enrolment rate increases between 2001 and 2019 and a sharper decline between 2019 and 2022. Frenette concludes by emphasizing the importance of monitoring these trends, as they “represent early indicators of the development of human capital for the economy as a whole, as well as for different segments of the population.”
