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Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank all those involved in the development and production, in Canada, of the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Youth in Transition Survey at Statistics Canada (STC), Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC).

The assistance of many people was invaluable to the production of this research paper. Thanks go to those in the Centre for Education Statistics and to the policy research group of the Learning Policy Directorate of HRSDC for their feedback and suggestions. Special thanks go to Tamara Knighton, Ginette Grégoire, Rosemarie Andrews and Danielle Baum for their assistance in the production of this report.

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Catalogue no. 81-595-M no. 092

Frequency: Occasional

ISSN 1711-831X
ISBN 978-1-100-19154-6

Ottawa