Table 2.

Descriptive statistics

	Mean	SD	Median	Min	Max
Resilience	0.15	0.36	0.00	0.00	1.00
Female	0.60	0.49	1.00	0.00	1.00
Parental ISEI	53.54	18.95	54.11	12.00	88.00
Age in 2011	21.94	2.47	21.00	17.00	35.00
Number of siblings	1.50	1.11	1.00	0.00	8.00
Years in kindergarten	2.96	0.96	3.00	0.00	13.00
Age of father in 2011	53.32	6.20	53.00	25.63	94.81
Age of mother in 2011	50.49	5.26	50.00	31.00	92.00
University of Applied Sciences	0.24	0.43	0.00	0.00	1.00
Student loan eligible	0.43	0.50	0.00	0.00	1.00
Mother has died	0.01	0.11	0.00	0.00	1.00
Father has died	0.03	0.18	0.00	0.00	1.00
Place of birth
Germany, West	0.74	0.44	1.00	0.00	1.00
Germany, East	0.20	0.40	0.00	0.00	1.00
Abroad	0.06	0.24	0.00	0.00	1.00
Migration background
Both parents born in Germany	0.84	0.37	1.00	0.00	1.00
One parent born abroad	0.06	0.25	0.00	0.00	1.00
Both parents born abroad	0.10	0.30	0.00	0.00	1.00
Field of study*
Cultural sciences/humanities	0.28	0.45	0.00	0.00	1.00
Economics/law/social sciences	0.26	0.44	0.00	0.00	1.00
STEM	0.24	0.43	0.00	0.00	1.00
Health sciences/medicine	0.05	0.22	0.00	0.00	1.00
Engineering	0.15	0.36	0.00	0.00	1.00
Arts	0.03	0.16	0.00	0.00	1.00
Parental education
Low	0.10	0.31	0.00	0.00	1.00
Medium	0.28	0.45	0.00	0.00	1.00
High	0.27	0.44	0.00	0.00	1.00
University	0.35	0.48	0.00	0.00	1.00
Living with family*	0.46	0.50	0.00	0.00	1.00
Intention to drop out*	1.56	0.56	1.40	1.00	4.00
Average grades*	2.72	0.55	2.73	1.00	4.00
Satisfaction*	7.16	1.65	7.50	0.00	10.00

Source NEPS SC5, imputed data. Statistics calculated for 2012

Variables marked with an asterisk are not time constant and can change in the subsequent waves of the survey