Table 2.

Relative Risk Ratios From Multinomial Logistic Regression Models Predicting Post-secondary Destinations

	Two-Year School Versus Employment	Four-Year School Versus Employment	Four-Year School Versus Two-Year School
Main Effects Model
Job opportunities
Unemployment rates	1.06*	1.11**	1.05
% NEED BA	1.03*	1.02*	1.03
Economic resources
Family income (ln)	1.09*	1.26**	1.15**
Log-likelihood	−10,452.63
Interaction Effects Model
Job opportunities
Unemployment rates	1.50**	1.75**	1.07
% NEED BA	0.96	1.14	1.10
Economic resources
Family income (ln)	1.29	1.68**	1.30
Interaction Terms
Unemployment rates × Family income (ln)	0.96*	0.96*	0.99
% NEED BA × Family income (ln)	1.00	0.99	0.98
Log-likelihood	−10,440.98

Notes: N = 11,903. All models control for race/ethnicity, sex, family structure, parent’s highest level of education, cognitive ability, orientation toward school, orientation toward work, size of the local youth population, the number of local colleges, state of residence, and missing data.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01