都道府県別大学進学率格差とその規定要因

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The problem of this article is to determine the regional differencesin college enrollment ratio and to explore the determinants of these differences.
The determination of the college enrollment ratio in each prefectureis not easy because the data on the exact number of re-enrollment andon the statistical universe in each prefecture are not available. In thisarticle, I tried to determine the college enrollment (and application) ratio by including the number of re-enrollment as far as the data areavailable and by defining the junior high school graduates of 1964 (and1965) as a statistical universe. There is a large variability in applicationratio from 43% of Tokyo to 11% of Aomori. Generally, highly urbanizedprefectures such as Tokyo, Kanagawa, Aichi, Nara, Kyoto, Hyogo, Kagawa, and Hiroshima are high in the ratio. There is also a variability in thecollege enrollment ratio from 39% of Tokyo to 11% of Aomori.
In order to explore the determinants of these regional differences, the following six factors were employed as independent variables:(a) proportion of administrative, managerial, and professional workers;(b) proportion of non-agricultural workers;(c) proportion of senior highschool or college graduates;(d) per capita income;(e) proportion of urbanpopulation;(f) dispersion of college campuses. Pearson's Product MomentCorrelation Coefficients were computed. Results showed very high correlationcoefficients: for instance, for four-year college application ratio, 0.9132with (c); 0.9012 with (a); 0.8835 with (d); 0.8668 with (b).