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Table 12
Marginal effects from probit models on university completion, by major immigration class
Table summary
This table displays the results of Marginal effects from probit models on university completion Economic class, Family class, Refugees, Model 1 and Model 2, calculated using marginal effect and value units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
	Economic class		Family class		Refugees
	marginal effect
United States	0.010	-0.035	-0.076^Note *	-0.110^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Caribbean	-0.134^Note ***	-0.229^Note ***	-0.189^Note ***	-0.181^Note ***	-0.222^Note ***	-0.215^Note ***
Central and South America	-0.123^Note ***	-0.160^Note ***	-0.192^Note ***	-0.167^Note ***	-0.245^Note ***	-0.218^Note ***
Northern Europe	-0.120^Note ***	-0.158^Note ***	-0.011	-0.057	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Western Europe	-0.100^Note ***	-0.119^Note ***	-0.016	-0.051	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Southern Europe	-0.244^Note ***	-0.213^Note ***	-0.216^Note ***	-0.194^Note ***	-0.145^Note ***	-0.108^Note **
Africa	0.015	-0.055^Note *	-0.048^Note *	-0.014	-0.143^Note ***	-0.126^Note ***
South Asia	0.048^Note **	-0.039	-0.112^Note ***	-0.031	-0.092^Note ***	-0.053
Southeast Asia	-0.116^Note ***	-0.172^Note ***	-0.155^Note ***	-0.092^Note ***	-0.176^Note ***	-0.171^Note ***
East Asia	0.128^Note ***	0.101^Note ***	0.052^Note **	0.108^Note ***	-0.101^Note **	-0.079^Note *
West Asia	0.030	-0.067^Note **	-0.078^Note ***	-0.074^Note **	-0.142^Note ***	-0.086^Note ***
Oceania and other	-0.170^Note ***	-0.208^Note ***	-0.244^Note ***	-0.212^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Female	Note ...: not applicable	0.109^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.057^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.082^Note ***
Years since immigration	Note ...: not applicable	0.001	Note ...: not applicable	0.003^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.005^Note **
0 to 5 years of age at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.082^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.099^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.120^Note ***
6 to 12 years of age at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.047^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.050^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	0.080^Note ***
English or French mother tongue	Note ...: not applicable	-0.001	Note ...: not applicable	0.015	Note ...: not applicable	-0.003
Family market income at entry (logged)	Note ...: not applicable	-0.106^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.038	Note ...: not applicable	0.061^Note *
Family income growth	Note ...: not applicable	-0.058^Note **	Note ...: not applicable	0.018	Note ...: not applicable	0.040^Note **
Fathers with university degree at landing	Note ...: not applicable	0.044	Note ...: not applicable	0.004	Note ...: not applicable	0.019
Fathers not speaking English or French	Note ...: not applicable	-0.223^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.043	Note ...: not applicable	-0.045
Source-country gross domestic product per capita (logged)	Note ...: not applicable	-0.003	Note ...: not applicable	0.020^Note ***	Note ...: not applicable	-0.007
	value
Pseudo R squared	0.037	0.054	0.035	0.052	0.026	0.052
... not applicable Note * significantly different from reference category (p<0.05) Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from reference category (p<0.01) Return to note referrer Note * significantly different from reference category (p<0.001) Return to note * referrer Notes: Model 2 also controls for geographic region of residence.The sample size is 34,529 for the economic class, 19,994 for the family class, and 15,225 for refugees. The reference group is 'male' for sex, '13 to 17 years' for age at landing, 'other mother tongues' for mother tongue, and 'Eastern Europe' for source region. Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculations based on data from the 2011 National Household Survey and Immigrant Landing File linkage.

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