Alberta Secondary Schools Report Card, 2000: Appendix 2 Measuring Socio-economic Context

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The association of various socio-economic characteristics with the 1998/1999 Overall rating out of ten
Regression Statistics
Multiple R	0.370848
R Square	0.137528
Adjusted R Square	0.109017
Standard Error	1.943974
Observations	251

Coefficients of the independent variables
	Coefficients	t Stat	p Value
Intercept	-3.60	-0.88	n/s
APEInc	0.00	-0.50	n/s
APGTPInc	0.00	-1.44	n/s
APOInc	0.00	1.10	n/s
%PPNoKnowOffLang	-0.20	-1.43	n/s
%PPNon-offHLange	-0.03	-1.24	n/s
AvgAgePP	0.14	1.28	n/s
%LPAR	-0.02	-1.20	n/s
MEPAvgEd	0.41	2.2	**

Key to Independent Variable Names
APEInc	Average Parental Employment Income
APGTPInc	Average Parental Government Transfer Payment Income
APOInc	Average Parental Other Income
%PPNoKnowOffLang	% of target families in which the principal parent claims no knowledge of either official language.
%PPNon-offHLange	% of target families in which the principal parent claims to primarily use a language that is not one of the official languages in the home.
AvgAgePP	Average age of the principal parent in the target families.
%LPAR	% of target families in which there is only one parent that resides in the home.
MEPAvgEd	Average number of years of education of the most educated parent.

Notes (1)All independent variables are derived from 1996 Census data (aggregated to the Enumeration Area level). Data was weighted according to by-census enumeration area enrolment data provided by Alberta Learning. (2)Principal Parent (PP) means the female parent in two parent families and the lone parent in single parent families. (3)** = significant at 99% level; * = significant at 90% level; ns=not significant at 90% level

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