An article in the June edition of Statistics Canada's Education Matters uses Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) data to examine education, income, and labour market outcomes associated with proficiency levels in reading from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) at age 15.
The authors note that further study and analysis of the connection between age 15 reading proficiency and outcomes is needed, and their findings include the following:
The findings reported here indicate that many individuals at lower reading proficiency levels at age 15 make life-path choices that are substantively different from those at higher levels of reading proficiency. Youth with lower levels of proficiency were more likely to have ended their education with high school completion or less, while those who scored at or above Level 3 were more likely to have completed some form of postsecondary education. The decision to pursue a postsecondary education necessarily leads to a longer stay in the education system and at age 25, twice as many Level 4/5 youth were still in school relative to those below Level 3.The association between higher reading proficiency at age 15 and higher levels of educational attainment at age 25 is illustrated in the figure below:
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