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. 2012 Jul;75(1):69–76. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.045

Table 4.

The influence on substance use of value-added education and school-level measures.a

Smoking
Drinking
Drugs
S2 S4 S2 S4 S2 S4
Model VA
School-level variance 0.070 0 0.015 0.028 0.052 0.016
Value-added
OR (CI 95%) 1.28 (1.02–1.61) 1.13 (1.00–1.27) 1.11 (0.97–1.28) 0.94 (0.82–1.09) 1.14 (0.93–1.39) 1.02 (0.90–1.17)
p 0.034 0.049 0.135 0.403 0.197 0.717
Model VA + SLF
School-level variance 0.003 0 0.011 0.022 0.020 0.012
Value-added
OR (CI 95%) 1.35 (1.13–1.63) 1.18 (1.04–1.34) 1.14 (0.99–1.31) 0.98 (0.85–1.13) 1.21 (1.01–1.45) 1.07 (0.93–1.22)
p 0.001 0.011 0.078 0.762 0.038 0.347
Larger school roll
OR (CI 95%) 1.21 (1.04–1.41) 1.04 (0.95–1.15) 1.05 (0.94–1.17) 1.10 (0.99–1.23) 1.14 (0.97–1.31) 1.04 (0.94–1.14)
p 0.016 0.372 0.392 0.074 0.075 0.456
Non-denominational School
OR (CI 95%) 1.35 (0.43–4.24) 1.10 (0.51–2.37) 1.09 (0.48–2.49) 1.77 (0.83–3.75) 2.28 (0.70–7.39) 1.21 (0.57–2.58)
p 0.616 0.808 0.833 0.138 0.171 0.587
Poorer aggregated school-level school ethos
OR (CI 95%) 4.60 (1.57–13.45) 1.93 (1.06–3.50) 1.49 (0.67–3.32) 1.16 (0.58–2.32) 3.78 (1.33–10.7) 1.68 (0.90–3.14)
p 0.005 0.032 0.334 0.671 0.012 0.104
a

Odds ratios [95% confidence intervals] for 1SD increase in value-added scores.