Relative Effort
People often want to compare jurisdictional efforts with respect to postsecondary education investments. These are typically exercises in choosing denominators: the numerator (total spending) is constant, it’s just a question of how to normalize raw expenditures. In Canada, we tend to normalize expenditures in one of two ways: either in per student terms, or in terms of gross domestic product. Figures 1 and 2 show these two measures across Canada. In short, Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan look the best
September 13, 2022
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