Table 2 Are differences in readiness to learn measures between children at different household income levels partly accounted for by differences in home environment variables between these groups?

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Table 2
Are differences in readiness to learn measures between children at different household income levels partly accounted for by differences in home environment variables between these groups?
Home environment variable	Readiness to learn measure
Home environment variable	Receptive vocabulary score	Communication skill score	Number knowledge score	Copying and symbol use score
Positive parent-child interaction	…	Yes	...	...
Daily reading	Yes	...	Yes	...
Participation in organized sports	Yes	Yes	No¹	Yes
Lessons in physical activities	Yes	Yes	No¹	Yes
Lessons in the arts	...	...	...	Yes
1. Significant interaction between income and home environment variable explained in the text.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2006, Readiness to Learn at School Among Five-year-old Children in Canada, Number 4 in the Children and Youth Research Paper Series, catalogue number 89-599-XWE2006004.