9 . However , after differences in a set of underlying characteristics are taken into account by matching learners from these two groups , the overall gap reduces substantially , to around 6 percentage points , as shown in Figure C3 below . Furthermore , Figure C3 appears to show that this gap has in fact widened since the Uni Connect programme launched , from 5.2 percentage points in the 2016-17 entrant year to 5.8 percentage points in the 2019-20 entrant year . It should again be noted many of the learners in this most recent cohort will have already made their application decisions by the time their Uni Connect engagement began .
Figure C3 : Gap in rates of entry by age 19 between learners from Uni Connect areas and the average rate of 1,000 matched counterfactual groups of learners from non-Uni Connect areas
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