Table 3.

Exponentiated Coefficients (Odds Ratios) for Logit Models Predicting College Attendance

	1		2		3		4		5
Aspirations (w3)	1.231		1.390		1.075		1.115		1.391
Expectations (w3)	2.792		2.720		2.204		2.357		3.062
Academic Orientation (w3)	1.448		1.512		1.275		1.064		1.300
Age	0.783		0.829		0.785		0.768		0.825
Family Income	1.233	***	1.237	***	1.219	***	1.205	***	1.235	***
Community Disorder	0.835		0.749		0.776		0.887		0.841
Conventional Values	1.786		1.731		1.562		1.493		1.731
Friends' Deviance	1.775		1.939		2.300	*	2.620	*	1.987
Mother Status			0.361	**	0.351	**	0.436	*	0.431	*
Aspirations (w4)					6.243	***	2.422
Expectations (w4)							5.168	***
Aspirations > Expectations									0.213	**
N	307
ll	−191.540		−186.681		−178.784		−169.801		−179.707
Chi-square	26.159		34.982		44.399		51.976		45.474
Pseudo-R2	0.099		0.122		0.159		0.201		0.154

Note: Robust standard errors used.

^*p<.05,

^**p<.01,

^***p<.001 (two-tailed); N = 307