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Probit regressions on the likelihood of self-employment for parents and their children

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Probit regressions on the likelihood of self-employment for parents and their children: Part 1


Table summary
This table displays the results of probit regressions on the likelihood of self-employment for parents and their children: part 1 fathers and sons and mothers and daughters, calculated using marginal effect and robust standard error units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Fathers and sons Mothers and daughters
  marginal effect robust standard error marginal effect robust standard error
Variables  
Parents-and-children group (reference:
Canadian parents)		  
Immigrant parents of second generation 0.011  Note *** 0.002 0.012  Note *** 0.002
Immigrant parents of 1.5 generation -0.024  Note *** 0.002 -0.001 0.002
Third-and-higher generations 0.002  Note * 0.001 0.027  Note *** 0.001
Second generation 0.016  Note *** 0.002 0.033  Note *** 0.003
 1.5 generation 0.029  Note *** 0.002 0.037  Note *** 0.003
Education (reference: high school
diploma)		  
No diploma/certificate 0.007  Note *** 0.001 0.000 0.001
Non-university diploma 0.003  Note ** 0.001 0.010  Note *** 0.001
Bachelor degree 0.010  Note *** 0.001 0.008  Note *** 0.001
Degree in medicine 0.557  Note *** 0.007 0.454  Note *** 0.009
Graduate degree 0.010  Note *** 0.002 0.025  Note *** 0.002
Years of experience 0.009  Note *** 0.000 0.007  Note *** 0.000
Years of experience squared -0.0002  Note *** 0.000 -0.0002  Note *** 0.000
Married (reference: other) 0.016  Note *** 0.001 0.015  Note *** 0.001
English/French mother tongue
(reference: other)		 -0.019  Note *** 0.002 -0.004  Note ** 0.002
Number of children present 0.006  Note *** 0.000 0.006  Note *** 0.000
Homeowners (reference: renters) 0.028  Note *** 0.001 0.014  Note *** 0.001
Ethnic/population groups (reference:
British/French)		  
Chinese -0.022  Note *** 0.003 0.002 0.002
South Asian -0.013  Note *** 0.003 -0.016  Note *** 0.003
Black -0.036  Note *** 0.003 -0.027  Note *** 0.002
Filipino -0.046  Note *** 0.002 -0.020  Note *** 0.002
Korean/Japanese 0.043  Note *** 0.007 0.052  Note *** 0.007
Other visible minorities 0.046  Note *** 0.006 0.013  Note ** 0.006
German 0.028  Note *** 0.002 0.010  Note *** 0.002
Italian 0.011  Note *** 0.002 -0.013  Note *** 0.002
Ukrainian 0.008  Note ** 0.003 0.000 0.003
Dutch 0.035  Note *** 0.004 0.018  Note *** 0.004
Polish 0.003 0.004 -0.002 0.004
Jewish 0.167  Note *** 0.007 0.058  Note *** 0.006
Portuguese -0.043  Note *** 0.003 -0.027  Note *** 0.002
Other European origins 0.023  Note *** 0.002 0.006  Note *** 0.001
p<0.05        
p<0.01        
p<0.001        
         

Probit regressions on the likelihood of self-employment for parents and their children: Part 2


Table summary
This table displays the results of probit regressions on the likelihood of self-employment for parents and their children: part 2 fathers and sons and mothers and daughters
  Fathers and sons Mothers and daughters
Correlation coefficient  
Geographic location effects included included
Diagnostic statistics  
Number of observations 894,191 778,522
Pseudo R-squared 0.044 0.042
p<0.05    
p<0.01    
p<0.001    
     
*
p<0.05
**
p<0.01
***
p<0.001
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, 1981 Census of Population and 2006 Census of Population.
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