Table 7.
Impacts of immigrant status and English-language knowledge home-country on the probability and conditional amount of an activity, Australian Time Use Survey, 1992a
| Purchasing | Education/ Training |
Work | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Probability of the Activity (No. Days = 12,998; No. People = 6,618) | ||||||
| Variable: | ||||||
| Immigrant | −0.0140 | 0.0170 | 0.0089 | 0.0011 | −0.0320 | −0.0025 |
| (0.0114) | (0.0128) | (0.0053) | (0.0054) | (0.0129) | (0.0146) | |
| Foreign | -------- | −0.0953 | --------- | 0.0257 | --------- | −0.0895 |
| language | -------- | (0.0175) | --------- | (0.0093) | --------- | (0.0191) |
| Pseudo-R2 | 0.0202 | 0.0221 | 0.2568 | 0.2588 | 0.1489 | 0.1506 |
| Minutes Conditional on the Activity | ||||||
| Immigrant | 6.940 | 3.690 | 41.162 | 15.688 | 9.339 | 3.906 |
| (2.375) | (2.651) | (21.215) | (22.966) | (8.183) | (8.781) | |
| Foreign | --------- | 11.427 | --------- | 65.200 | --------- | 20.667 |
| language | --------- | (3.723) | --------- | (28.631) | --------- | (13.446) |
| Adjusted-R2 | 0.0254 | 0.0266 | 0.1504 | 0.1576 | 0.0987 | 0.0992 |
| NDAYS | 6,764 | 1,048 | 5,607 | |||
| N People | 4,714 | 703 | 3,580 | |||
| Z score of equality | 2.52 | 2.65 | 1.30 | |||
a
Also included in the equations are a vector of indicators of educational attainment, a quadratic in the respondent’s age, gender, marital status, the number of children under age 15, and their distribution by age category. Standard errors are clustered on the individuals.