Table 4.

Descriptive statistics, Cape Area Panel Study, respondents enrolled in Grades 8 or 9 in 2002 and observed again in 2005

	African (N=458)		Coloured (N=391)		White (N=84)
Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.
Advance 3 grades by 2005	0.271	0.445	0.340	0.474	0.816	0.390
Enrolled in 2003	0.898	0.303	0.820	0.385	0.966	0.182
Enrolled in 2004	0.822	0.383	0.685	0.465	0.957	0.204
Enrolled in 2005	0.673	0.470	0.478	0.500	0.843	0.366
Grade 9 in 2002	0.643	0.480	0.632	0.483	0.587	0.495
Female	0.555	0.498	0.461	0.499	0.532	0.502
Number of grades failed by 2002	0.770	0.969	0.553	0.755	0.211	0.492
Failed at least one grade by 2002	0.516	0.500	0.413	0.493	0.175	0.382
Failed grade enrolled in 2002	0.171	0.377	0.162	0.369	0.019	0.139
Standardized LNE total score	−0.626	0.814	−0.028	0.723	1.065	0.602
Log per cap hh income (mean zero)	−0.681	0.891	0.216	0.874	1.871	0.757
Mother’s education (grades completed)	8.206	2.954	8.690	2.632	12.284	1.604
Father’s education (grades completed)	7.194	3.592	8.762	2.916	12.920	1.994
Mother’s education missing	0.107	0.309	0.098	0.297	0.000	0.000
Father’s education missing	0.395	0.489	0.318	0.466	0.085	0.281
Local unemployment rate for age & sex	0.773	0.148	0.600	0.206	0.262	0.264
Former DET (African) school	0.748	0.435	0.020	0.139	0.000	0.000
Former HOA (White) school	0.033	0.180	0.074	0.263	0.907	0.293
Former HOR (Coloured) school	0.128	0.335	0.862	0.346	0.012	0.109
New school since 1994	0.091	0.287	0.009	0.092	0.082	0.276
Annual school expenses in 2002 (rands)	325.8	1161.5	731.4	1330.0	5816.5	5848.6
Pupil-teacher ratio in 2002	32.4	4.0	30.4	3.1	24.0	3.1