Table 7
Proportion of gap in academic outcomes between private and public high school students accounted for by differences in covariates (decomposition results)

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Table 7
Proportion of gap in academic outcomes between private and public high school students accounted for by differences in covariates (decomposition results)
Table summary
This table displays the results of Proportion of gap in academic outcomes between private and public high school students accounted for by differences in covariates (decomposition results). The information is grouped by Outcome variable (appearing as row headers), Total gap (private high school minus public high school), Proportion of gap accounted for by differences in:, All covariates, Province fixed effects covariates, Socio-economic covariates, School resources and practices covariates, Peer effects covariates and Unobserved factors, calculated using proportion units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Outcome variable Total gap (private high school minus public high school) Proportion of gap accounted for by differences in:
All covariates Province fixed effects covariates Socio-economic covariates School resources and practices covariates Peer effects covariates Unobserved factors
proportion
Log of reading score 0.081 0.840 0.293 0.271 -0.007 0.283 0.160
Log of mathematics score 0.084 1.032 0.523 0.270 -0.084 0.324 -0.032
Log of science score 0.088 0.841 0.255 0.286 0.130 0.170 0.159
High school graduation 0.034 1.337 0.722 0.527 -0.137 0.224 -0.337
Postsecondary attendance 0.116 0.544 0.084 0.409 -0.238 0.290 0.456
University attendance 0.178 1.025 -0.009 0.547 0.123 0.364 -0.025
Postsecondary graduation 0.162 0.566 0.320 0.203 -0.090 0.133 0.434
University graduation 0.139 0.735 -0.010 0.421 0.054 0.270 0.265
Graduate or professional studies 0.081 0.646 0.165 0.248 0.056 0.177 0.354
Notes: The sample consists of individuals who were born in 1984, were in Grade 10, lived in Canada (excluding the Atlantic provinces and the territories) in April or May 2000, and responded to a follow-up survey in 2008. The test scores were measured at age 15 (in 2000); educational outcomes refer to attainment by age 23 (in 2008).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A; and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Programme for International Student Assessment.
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