Table 7.

Pass rates and descriptive statistics, CAPS respondents enrolled in grades 9 to 12 in 2002, 2003 or 2004

	African		Coloured		White
Variable	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.	Mean	Std. Dev.
Grade 12:
Pass grade	0.778	0.417	0.896	0.306	0.996	0.066
Pass with exemption	0.183	0.387	0.229	0.421	0.586	0.494
Number of attempts at grade	1.102	0.329	1.011	0.104	1.000	0.000
Number of grades failed, Wave 1	0.696	0.854	0.404	0.693	0.140	0.362
Standardized LNE total score	−0.089	−0.729	0.564	−0.625	1.311	−0.449
Log hh income per cap.	−0.421	−0.958	0.676	−0.798	1.870	−0.766
Observations	294		350		132
Grade 11:
Pass grade	0.644	0.479	0.793	0.406	0.917	0.276
Number of attempts at grade	1.197	0.422	1.070	0.283	1.016	0.127
Number of grades failed, Wave 1	0.782	0.986	0.374	0.669	0.156	0.423
Standardized LNE total score	−0.318	0.782	0.396	0.638	1.228	0.522
Log hh income per cap.	−0.497	0.896	0.604	0.775	1.775	0.937
Observations	477		422		149
Grade 10:
Pass grade	0.676	0.468	0.694	0.461	0.932	0.253
Number of attempts at grade	1.212	0.445	1.156	0.378	1.070	0.256
Number of grades failed, Wave 1	0.775	0.913	0.485	0.727	0.157	0.433
Standardized LNE total score	−0.501	0.783	0.151	0.693	1.151	0.554
Log hh income per cap.	−0.617	0.890	0.403	0.846	1.816	0.790
Observations	601		503		125
Grade 9:
Pass grade	0.815	0.388	0.826	0.380	0.959	0.199
Number of attempts at grade	1.136	0.374	1.056	0.229	1.015	0.124
Number of grades failed, Wave 1	0.780	0.976	0.532	0.706	0.185	0.466
Standardized LNE total score	−0.642	0.798	−0.036	0.731	1.052	0.589
Log hh income per cap.	−0.690	0.897	0.248	0.869	1.845	0.700
Observations	531		394		96