Table 3.
Which Students are Doing Schoolwork?
| Sample | No | 0.5 to 4 | More than | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size | Schoolwork | hours | 4 h | Reads | |
| Full Sample | 1320 | 0.14 | 0.42 | 0.44 | 0.04 |
| Males | 611 | 0.14 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.03 |
| Females | 709 | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.46 | 0.04 |
| test of gender equality | 0.659 | 0.241 | 0.141 | 0.491 | |
| Grade 10 | 473 | 0.18 | 0.42 | 0.40 | 0.05 |
| Grade 11 | 498 | 0.13 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.02 |
| Grade 12 | 349 | 0.09 | 0.36 | 0.56 | 0.03 |
| test of grade equality | 0.000 | 0.016 | 0.000 | 0.164 | |
| Lowest Wealth Quartile | 311 | 0.19 | 0.41 | 0.40 | 0.05 |
| Highest Wealth Quartile | 351 | 0.09 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.04 |
| test of wealth equality | 0.000 | 0.128 | 0.239 | 0.605 | |
| Mother's Education:high school or less | 582 | 0.16 | 0.41 | 0.43 | 0.04 |
| Mother's education:beyond high school | 738 | 0.12 | 0.42 | 0.46 | 0.03 |
| test of educational equality | 0.059 | 0.789 | 0.296 | 0.412 | |
| Mestizo or White | 1110 | 0.13 | 0.42 | 0.45 | 0.04 |
| Indigenous or Other | 210 | 0.19 | 0.41 | 0.40 | 0.03 |
| test of ethnicity equality | 0.028 | 0.901 | 0.162 | 0.896 | |
| Pichincha | 915 | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.47 | 0.03 |
| Napo or Orellana | 405 | 0.16 | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.04 |
| test of provincial equality | 0.158 | 0.077 | 0.006 | 0.348 | |
| Have Computer and Internet | 775 | 0.09 | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.03 |
| No Internet | 340 | 0.22 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.05 |
| test of technology access equality | . | 0.000 | 0.609 | 0.000 | 0.126 |
Notes: number of hours of schooling based on time-use question, and excludes weekends. Pichincha is the more urban province, and Napo and Orellana the more rural provinces. Tests of equality report p-values for t-tests (two groups) or F-tests (for grade equality) of equality of means across the groups.