Table 3
Variation in violent delinquency across schools

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Variation in violent delinquency across schools
	Empty model	School neighbourhood characteristics model	School characteristics model	Student characteristics model	Full model
	odds ratio
Fixed effects
Intercept	0.15 ^**	0.13 ^**	0.06 ^**	0.03 ^**	0.01 ^**
School-neighbourhood characteristics
Socioeconomic disadvantage ¹
Low ²	…	1.00	…	…	1.00
Middle	…	1.14	…	…	0.94
High	…	1.08	…	…	1.00
Police-reported crime rate ¹
Low ²	…	1.00	…	…	1.00
Middle	…	1.36 ^*	…	…	0.93
High	…	1.00	…	…	0.90
School characteristics
School capital ¹
Low	…	…	1.53 ^**	…	1.49 ^**
Middle	…	…	1.41 ^*	…	1.50 ^**
High ²	…	…	1.00	…	1.00
School disorder ¹
Low ²	…	…	1.00	…	1.00
Middle	…	…	1.44 ^**	…	1.25
High	…	…	1.45 ^**	…	1.41
School status
Public	…	…	1.70	…	1.56
Private ²	…	…	1.00	…	1.00
Student characteristics
Gender
Male	…	…	…	1.96 ^**	1.99 ^**
Female ²	…	…	…	1.00	1.00
Grade level
Grade 7	…	…	…	1.59 ^**	1.85 ^**
Grade 8	…	…	…	1.52 ^**	1.68 ^**
Grade 9 ²	…	…	…	1.00	1.00
Low parental monitoring
Yes	…	…	…	3.60 ^**	3.53 ^**
No ²	…	…	…	1.00	1.00
Friends accept criminal behaviour
Yes	…	…	…	4.28 ^**	4.24 ^**
No ²	…	…	…	1.00	1.00
Usually does not like school
Yes	…	…	…	1.59 ^**	1.57 ^**
No ²	…	…	…	1.00	1.00
	variance
Random effects
Variance component (µ_0j)	0.215 ^**	0.207 ^**	0.106	0.153 ^*	1.076
	percent
Prevalence and variation across schools ³
Average likelihood in a 'typical' school	13.2	11.4	5.8	2.6	1.2
Low prevalence	5.8	5.0	3.1	1.2	0.7
High prevalence	27.4	23.8	10.4	5.4	2.0

statistically different from the reference category p ≤ 0.1; or for variance components, regression coefficients in the model vary statistically among schools p ≤ 0.1

statistically different from the reference category p ≤ 0.05; or for variance components, regression coefficients in the model vary statistically among schools p ≤ 0.05

For this analysis, neighbourhood and school variables were divided into tertiles, or low, middle and high scores, each containing one-third of schools.

Reference category in models.

See details on calculation of prevalence and variation across schools in 'Calculating between-school variation in prevalence of violent delinquency' in the Methodology section.

Note(s):

Unweighted sample size = 3,137 students attending 149 Toronto schools.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada, International Youth Survey, 2006, Census, 2006 and Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2006.

Table 3Variation in violent delinquency across schools

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Table 3
Variation in violent delinquency across schools