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Published in final edited form as: Res Sociol Educ. 2003;14:59–102.

Table 4.

The Role of Birth Cohort, Sibship Size, Additional Siblings, Composition of Migrants With Respect to Remitting, School Accessibility, and Remoteness for Explaining Educational Attainment, Multinomial Logistic Regression Results. Young Woman And Young Man Compared (Odds-Ratios Presented).

Variable Young Men
Young Women
Lwr vs. Prm Upr vs. Lwr Upr vs. Prm Lwr vs. Prm Upr vs. Lwr Upr vs. Prm
Birth cohort
 1972–1974 0.441*** 2.572*** 1.135 0.349*** 1.190 0.416***
 1975–1976 0.460*** 2.769*** 1.273 0.369*** 2.222*** 0.820
 1977–1978
Sibship size
 No siblings 1.973 0.742 1.463 2.894** 1.095 3.169**
 One sibling 2.723*** 0.800 2.179** 2.236*** 1.459 3.264***
 Two siblings 1.739** 1.280 2.226*** 1.549* 1.475 2.285***
 Three siblings 1.350 1.001 1.351 2.121*** 1.437 3.048***
 Four or more siblings
Additional siblings 0.509* 1.851 0.942 0.784 1.034 0.811
Composition of migrants with respect to remitting
 Some remitting migrants 1.240 0.722 0.896 1.977 0.943 1.864**
 Only non-remitting migrants 0.882 1.577 1.391 0.714 3.091 2.206*
 Neither
Composition of migrants with respect to gender and remitting
 Any remitting female migrants 0.545 1.531 0.835 0.502 0.574 0.288*
 No remitting female migrants at all
 Non remitting male migrants only 2.479 0.521 1.292 2.100 0.576 1.209
 Any other than non-remitting male migrants
School accessibility
 No secondary school in 1984 or 1994
 Secondary school in 1994 only 0.719 1.628 1.170 1.280 1.148 1.469
 Secondary school in both 1984 and 1994 0.700 1.595 1.116 1.087 0.845 0.918
Remoteness
 Not at all remote in 1984
 Somewhat remote in 1984 0.876 0.840 0.735 0.952 0.755 0.718
 Very remote in 1984 0.289*** 1.374 0.398** 0.288** 1.320 0.380*
Controls
 Land ownership
  10 or fewer rai 0.905 0.691 0.625** 0.435*** 1.324 0.576***
  11–24 rai
  25 or more rai 1.146 1.277 1.463* 1.775*** 0.697 1.237
 Household owns at least a motorcycle
  Yes 3.518*** 2.062*** 7.253*** 1.938*** 3.385*** 6.560***
  No
 Household Education
  One adult with less than 4 years of school 0.772 0.790 0.610** 0.544** 1.138 0.619**
  Two or more adults with less than 4 years of school 0.892 0.711 0.634 0.714 1.065 0.760
  No adults with less than 4 years of school
N 2214 2097
Log likelihood −1326.25 −1081.95
Ward X2 1660.30*** 1465.92***
PseudoR2 0.10 0.11
*

p ≤ 0.1.

**

p ≤ 0.05.

***

p ≤ 0.01