  This paper presents the results of a study carried out to identify the
factors that influence the further education desires of Sri Lankan youth.
Statistical modeling has been initially used to infer the desires of the youth
and then a decision support tool has been developed based on the statistical
model developed. In order to carry out the analysis and the development of the
model, data collected as part of the National Youth Survey has been used. The
accuracy of the model and the decision support tool has been tested by using a
random data sets and the accuracy was found to be well above 80 percent, which
is sufficient for any policy related decision making.
