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Table D-17
Academic skill and cognitive ability – Means and standard errors (SE) for number knowledge score by home environment variables at age 5
Home environment variables Number knowledge score
Mean score
Standard error (SE)
Total (n=3,560)
99.1
0.33
Level of positive interaction with parent (n=3,535)
Not high
96.6
0.66
High
99.7
0.37
Frequency of reading to the child (n=3,558)
Not daily
97.01
0.47
Daily
100.4
0.40
Frequency of number use with the child (n=3,558)
Not daily
97.9
0.45
Daily
100.0
0.46
Frequency of participation in organized sports (n=3,557)
Not weekly
96.61
0.43
Weekly
101.9
0.47
Frequency of participation in unorganized sports (n=3,556)
Not weekly
97.2
0.57
Weekly
100.1
0.40
Frequency of lessons in physical activities (n=3,557)
Not weekly
97.91
0.41
Weekly
101.7
0.49
Frequency of lessons in the arts (n=3,554)
Not weekly
98.61
0.37
Weekly
102.5
0.77
1. Statistically significant and substantive difference between levels.
Notes
Statistical significance: p<0.01 for differences between 2 levels of home environment variables.
Substantive differences are defined as mean differences of 0.25 of a standard deviation (0.25 SD) or more, as follows: for number knowledge score at age 5, 0.25 SD=3.47.
Numbers vary due to missing data for some home environment variables.
Data source: Statistics Canada, National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, 2002/2003.
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.