TABLE 4.
Results of Poisson multilevel analyses on the association between registered unauthorized school absenteeism, self-reported unauthorized school absenteeism, student’s characteristics and the type of school absenteeism.
| Model 1 | Model 2a | Model 2b | Model 3 | |||||
| B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | |
| Intercept | −5.00∗∗∗ | (0.27) | −4.39∗∗∗ | (0.27) | –4.38∗∗∗ | (0.51) | –4.14∗∗∗ | (0.53) |
| Gender (0: girl) | 0.14∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.08∗ | (0.03) | –0.17∗∗ | (0.05) | –0.17∗∗ | (0.06) |
| Ethnicity (0: speaks no foreign language at home) | 0.28∗∗∗ | (0.04) | 0.35∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.11(*) | (0.07) | 0.15∗ | (0.07) |
| Educational level of the mother (0: no secondary education) | 0.21∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.14∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.27∗∗∗ | (0.06) | 0.09 | (0.06) |
| School allowance (0: receives no school allowance) | 0.28∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.30∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.13(*) | (0.05) | 0.26∗∗∗ | (0.05) |
| Educational track (0: general/art) | 0.73∗∗∗ | (0.05) | 0.65∗∗∗ | (0.05) | 0.61∗∗∗ | (0.09) | 0.54∗∗∗ | (0.09) |
| Age | 0.27∗∗∗ | (0.02) | 0.23∗∗∗ | (0.02) | 0.26∗∗∗ | (0.03) | 0.25∗∗∗ | (0.03) |
| Self-reported unauthorized school absenteeism | 0.16∗∗∗ | (0.01) | 0.15∗∗∗ | (0.01) | 0.12∗∗∗ | (0.01) | ||
| SAP type (0: truancy) | ||||||||
| School refusal | 0.22∗∗∗ | (0.07) | ||||||
| School withdrawal | 0.01 | (0.06) | ||||||
| Discovered unauthorized school absences | –0.06∗∗ | (0.02) | ||||||
| Authorized school absenteeism | 0.05∗∗∗ | (0.01) | ||||||
| N students | 4344 | 4344 | 777 | 777 | ||||
| N schools | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | ||||
| Model deviance | 15031.94∗∗∗ | 14025.63∗∗∗ | 3337.98∗∗∗ | 3285.37∗∗∗ | ||||
The estimated Poisson regression coefficients (B) are presented with standard errors (SE) and Model Deviance, with significance level of the Chi–squared test comparing it to the deviance of the previous model (except model 2b); Model 1 is compared to the null-model. (∗)p ≤ 0.10; ∗p ≤ 0.05; ∗∗p ≤ 0.01; ∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001.