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Table 3 Homework participation and time spent
Population
Participation rate
Time per day (participants)
Time per day (population)
Tobit estimates1 predicting
minutes per day
’000
%
Hours : minutes
           
Total 1,228 57 2:17 1:19
…
 
Age
15 to 17 676 57 1:58 1:07
-22
 **
18 to 19 552 58 2:41 1:33
ref
           
Boys 593 54 2:09 1:09
…
Girls 635 61 2:24 1:28
…
 
Immigrant parents
Boy 132 71 2:37 1:52
20
Girl 128 74 1:56 1:25
4
Canadian-born parent(s)
Boy 453 50 1:57
:58
-21
 **
Girl 494 58 2:35
1:30
ref
       
 
Two parents (intact family) 862 63 2:22
1:29
ref
Two parents (blended family) 132 49 2:00
:58
-20
One parent 235 43 2:04
:53
-31
 ***
 
Education level of parents
Both university 213 69 2:48 1:57
34
 **
Mixed 358 61 2:10 1:19
10
Both high school or less 384 51 2:15 1:09
ref
             
School day 773 68 1:57 1:20
26
 ***
Non-school day 456 39 3:16 1:17
ref
           
Urban 979 59 2:21 1:23
13
Rural 250 51 1:58 1:01
ref
           
Not employed 770 57 2:21 1:20
ref
Usual weekly job hours
1-9
 106 59 2:50 1:40
19
10-19
 173 70 2:17 1:35
12
20+ 172 46 1:36
:45
-32
 **
1 This is the marginal effect each variable has on the time spent doing daily homework.
* Regression results statistically significant at the <.10 level; ** <.05 level, *** <.01 level
from the reference (ref) group.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2005