1. Objectifs

Intentions :
The goal of this study was to «examine the relationships between placement instability, education outcomes, and occupational status.» (p. 1)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«Within the Quebec’s youth protection system, all youth who would be between 16 and 18 years of age during the first wave of data collection, and who had cumulated at least one year in out-of-home placement at the time of data extraction (excluding short placements of 72 h or less) were identified. After cleaning the administrative data, the final cohort consisted of a population of 2573 adolescents.» (p. 3)

Instruments :
Questionnaire

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«Using high quality longitudinal data from Quebec, this paper has found that placement instability is strongly related to occupational status and educational attainment. Youth who experience more placement instability have a higher probability to drop out of school early, and to not acquire work experience. These youth also have a much lower probability to receive a high school degree, which ultimately lowers their employment perspectives. More specifically, we have found that before our participants left care in wave one, an increase of one standard deviation in placement instability was associated with a 48% higher risk of being neither studying nor working relative to being studying only. In wave two, when most of our participants had left care, we have found that an increase of one standard deviation in placement instability was associated with a significantly decreased risk of about 36% to be conjointly studying and working rather than being studying only.» (p. 8)