Table 15
Response rates of cycle 7 respondents for school readiness indicators at cycle 5 and for mathematics test score at cycle 7, by geographic characteristics

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Response rates of cycle 7 respondents for school readiness indicators at cycle 5 and for mathematics test score at cycle 7, by geographic characteristics
  Receptive vocabulary score cycle 5 1 Number knowledge score cycle 5 1 Who Am I? score cycle 5 2 Mathematics test score cycle 7 3
  percent
Overall response rate 91 91 87 89
Community size  
Rural 90 90 87 86
Under 30,000 95 94 91 91
30,000 to under 100,000 93 93 91 86
100,000 to under 500,000 92 92 89 89
500,000 and over 89 89 85 89
Region of residence  
Atlantic 94 94 90 93
Quebec 94 93 86 93
Ontario 88 88 87 89
Prairie 90 90 87 83
British Columbia 92 93 90 85
1.
Response rate for this measure was significantly higher statistically and substantively for those in the Atlantic Region or Quebec compared with Ontario.
2.
Response rate for this measure was significantly higher statistically and substantively for those in the Atlantic Region compared with Ontario.
3.
Response rate for this measure was significantly higher statistically and substantively for those in the Atlantic Region and Quebec compared with the Prairie Region and British Columbia.
Note(s):
Statistical significance: p<0.01 for differences between levels. Substantive differences are defined as percentage differences of 5 points or more. Cycle 7 cross-sectional weights and cross-sectional bootstrap weights for variance estimation were used for these non-response analyses.
Source: Statistics Canada: National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth 2002/2003 and 2006/2007.