BC Secondary Schools Report Card, 2000:
Appendix 2 Measuring socio-economic context
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Regression Statistics |
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| Multiple R | 0.68 | |||
| R Square | 0.47 | |||
| Adjusted R Square | 0.44 | |||
| Standard Error | 1.38 | |||
| Observations | 251 | |||
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Coefficients of the independent variables |
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| Coefficients | t Stat | p Value | ||
| Intercept | -6.03 | -1.99 | ** | |
| APEInc | 0.00 | 0.02 | ns | |
| APGTPInc | 0.00 | 0.51 | ns | |
| APOInc | 0.00 | -0.67 | ns | |
| %PPNoKnowOffLang | -0.03 | -0.45 | ns | |
| %PPNon-offHLange | 0.00 | 0.02 | ns | |
| AvgAgePP | -0.01 | -0.06 | ns | |
| %LPAR | -0.01 | -0.61 | ns | |
| MEPAvgEd | 0.91 | 5.82 | ** | |
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Key to Independent Variable Names |
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| APEInc |
Average Parental Employment Income |
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| APGTPInc |
Average Parental Government Transfer Payment Income |
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| APOInc |
Average Parental Other Income |
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| %PPNoKnowOffLang |
% of target families in which the principal parent claims no knowledge of either official language. |
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| %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. |
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| AvgAgePP |
Average age of the principal parent in the target families. |
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| %LPAR |
% of target families in which there is only one parent that resides in the home. |
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| MEPAvgEd |
Average number of years of education of the most educated parent. |
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Notes (1) All independent variables are derived from 1996 Census data (aggregated to the Enumeration Area level). Data was weighted according to enrollment data sorted by postal code provided by the Ministry of Education. (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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