Table 2 Descriptive statistics
From: The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement
Full sample | Multi-child sample | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mother | Father | Mother | Father | |
Years since migration | 5.7 | 7.7 | 5.8 | 5.7 |
Parents' education from country of origin | ||||
Lower secondary school (max.) | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.10 |
Vocational education | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.05 |
High school | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Short cycle higher education | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Medium cycle higher education | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Long cycle higher education | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Missing education | 0.78 | 0.79 | 0.78 | 0.80 |
Parents' age at arrival | ||||
Age at arrival (if not missing) | 21.1 | 22.6 | 20.1 | 21.6 |
(SD Age at arrival) | 6.3 | 7.4 | 5.9 | 6.9 |
Missing age at arrival | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
Presence of (older) siblings born in country of origin | 0.22 | 0.16 | ||
Firstborn child | 0.39 | 0.31 | ||
Male | 0.50 | 0.49 | ||
Country of origin | ||||
Turkey | 0.36 | 0.39 | ||
Lebanon | 0.13 | 0.15 | ||
Pakistan | 0.10 | 0.13 | ||
Ex-Yugoslavia | 0.05 | 0.05 | ||
Outcome measures | ||||
Grade in Danish exam | −0.49 | −0.55 | ||
Grade in Math exam | −0.59 | −0.63 | ||
Drop-out/no exam | 0.09 | 0.08 | ||
No exam | 0.04 | 0.04 | ||
Number of observations | 21,154 | 12,393 | ||