Table 4
Marginal effects from a probit model of voting among the employed¹^,²

Table 4 Marginal effects from a probit model of voting among the employed
	marginal effects
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Weekly hours worked
Less than 30	ref.	ref.	ref.
30 to 39	0.03^*	0.00	-0.01
40	-0.03^*	-0.04^*	-0.03^*
More than 40	-0.04^*	-0.04^*	-0.03^*
Spousal employment status
Employed	0.09^*	0.08^*	0.03^*
Not employed	ref.	ref.	ref.
Sector
Public	0.11^*	0.06^*	0.03^*
Private
Self-employed	0.06^*	0.04^*	-0.02
Not self-employed	ref.	ref.	ref.
Occupation
Management	..	0.08^*	0.03^**
Business, finance and administrative	..	0.03^*	0.02^**
Natural and applied sciences and related	..	0.08^*	0.06^*
Health	..	0.04^*	0.01
Social science, education, government service and religion	..	0.10^*	0.06^*
Art, culture, recreation and sport	..	0.05^*	0.04^**
Sales and service	..	ref.	ref.
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related	..	-0.04^*	-0.04^*
Primary industry	..	-0.01	0
Processing, manufacturing and utilities	..	-0.07^*	-0.05^*
Industry controls	No	Yes	Yes
Personal characteristics	No	No	Yes
Number of observations	60,123	60,123	60,123
Pseudo R2	0.02	0.04	0.09
1. Dependent variable = 1 if the individual reported voting, 0 otherwise. 2. Marginal effect is for a discrete change in dummy variable from 0 to 1 and is calculated at the means of the independent variables. * significantly different from the reference group (ref.) at the 5% level .. not available for a specific reference period Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, May 2011.

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