Table 3
Impact of student characteristics and strategies on the probability of knowing a university degree is required

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Impact of student characteristics and strategies on the probability of knowing a university degree is required: Part 1
  15-year-olds 17-year-olds
  coefficient standard error coefficient standard error
Variables  
Female 0.0083 0.0179 0.0675 *** 0.0174
60%≤Overall mark≤69% 0.0092 0.0677 0.1116 0.0922
70%≤Overall mark≤79% 0.0864 0.0673 0.2018 ** 0.0909
80%≤Overall mark≤89% 0.1950 *** 0.0665 0.2689 *** 0.0919
Overall mark≥90% 0.2452 *** 0.0675 0.2732 *** 0.0936
2nd reading quartile 0.0717 ** 0.0356 0.0624 * 0.0344
3rd reading quartile 0.1134 *** 0.0338 0.0951 *** 0.0314
4th reading quartile 0.1189 *** 0.0342 0.1294 *** 0.0346
Birth order 0.0309 0.0618 -0.0492 0.0494
Birth order squared -0.0101 0.0165 0.0124 0.0121
Two parents, not both from birth -0.0559 0.0370 -0.0536 0.0405
Two birth parents -0.0511 0.0313 0.0105 0.0281
Parents have a non-university post-secondary certificate 0.0623 *** 0.0236 0.0212 0.0214
Parents have an undergraduate degree 0.0951 *** 0.0265 0.0473 ** 0.0227
Parents have a graduate or professional degree 0.0860 *** 0.0322 0.0457 0.0282
2nd parental income quartile 0.0565 ** 0.0265 0.0483 * 0.0272
3rd parental income quartile 0.1083 *** 0.0275 0.0228 0.0272
4th parental income quartile 0.0796 *** 0.0284 0.0716 *** 0.0264
All parents are immigrants 0.0828 *** 0.0250 0.0437 * 0.0231
Intercept 0.7272 *** 0.0886 0.7177 *** 0.1084
Impact of student characteristics and strategies on the probability of knowing a university degree is required: Part 2
  15-year-olds 17-year-olds
Diagnostic statistics  
Adjusted R-squared 0.1503 0.1937
Sample size (number) 5,208 4,832
*
p<0.1
**
p<0.05
***
p<0.01
Note(s):
Only students who wanted a job requiring a university degree at a point in time are included in the sample. The model is estimated by ordinary least squares, and school fixed effects are included.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A.
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