The National Youth Election Survey Report: A Subgroup Analysis of Political and Civic Participation among Canadian Youth

Table of Contents

A Report Commissioned
by Elections Canada

Filip Kostelka, Ph.D.
Université de Montréal
and
Colin Scott, M.A.
McGill University

June 2016

• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Appendix Tables

Contents

• Note to the Reader
• Executive Summary
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Youth Participation in the 2015 Federal Election
  • 2.1 How Much Participation?
  • 2.2 Who Participates?
• 3. What Impedes Youth Political Participation?
  • 3.1 Youth Voter Turnout
  • 3.2 Youth's Involvement in Other Forms of Political Participation
• 4. Disadvantaged Youth Subgroups: Why do they participate less?
  • 4.1 Unemployed Youth
  • 4.2 Youth from Rural Areas
  • 4.3 Aboriginal Youth Participation
• 5. The State of Youth Political and Civic Participation in 2015
  • 5.1 Summary of the Findings
  • 5.2 Policy Recommendations
• References
• Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Sampling Information and Variable Description
    • Sampling
    • Descriptive Statistics and Explanation of Independent Variables
  • Appendix B. Additional Tables

Figures

• Figure 1. Rates of Civic and Political Participation by Age Group
• Figure 2. Different Types of Political Participation by Age Group

Tables

• Table 1. Political and Civic Participation by Youth Subgroup
• Table 2. Predictors of Self-Reported Voter Turnout for All Citizens
• Table 3. Youth Dummy Regressed on Predictors of Voter Turnout
• Table 4. Interaction Effects Between Gender and Parenthood
• Table 5. Predictors of Contacting Politicians for All Citizens
• Table 6. Disparities in Participation for Unemployed Youth
• Table 7. Unemployed Dummy Regressed on Predictors of Participation
• Table 8. Disparities in Participation for Rural Youth
• Table 9. Rural Dummy Regressed on Predictors of Participation
• Table 10. Disparities in Participation for Aboriginal Youth
• Table 11. Aboriginal Dummy Regressed on Predictors of Participation

Appendix Tables

• Appendix Table 1. Youth Subgroups in the 2015 NYS
• Appendix Table 2. Descriptive Statistics – Quantitative Variables
• Appendix Table 3. Descriptive Statistics – Qualitative Variables
• Appendix Table 4. Comparing Youth Participation to that of Older Adults
• Appendix Table 5. Voter Turnout and Interaction Effects Between Gender and Parenthood – Full Model
• Appendix Table 6. Predictors of Voting and Age Effects