Table 2.
Descriptive statistics, by migration background (generation)
| Natives | 2-Gen | 1-Gen | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean; N | SD; % | Mean; N | SD; % | Mean; N | SD; % | Mean; N | SD; % | |
| Dependent variables | ||||||||
| Mathematics grades | 7.09 | 1.15 | 6.58 | 1.10 | 6.42 | 1.10 | 6.83 | 1.17 |
| Upper secondary school aspirations | ||||||||
| Academic track | 5316 | 30.33 | 1379 | 24.81 | 1541 | 19.36 | 8236 | 26.53 |
| Technical, lower academic | 6939 | 39.59 | 2125 | 38.23 | 2886 | 36.26 | 11,950 | 38.49 |
| Vocational | 2604 | 14.86 | 954 | 17.16 | 1780 | 22.36 | 5338 | 17.19 |
| Else | 1384 | 7.9 | 515 | 9.27 | 784 | 9.85 | 2683 | 8.64 |
| Don’t know | 1286 | 7.34 | 585 | 10.53 | 968 | 12.16 | 2839 | 9.14 |
| Independent variables | ||||||||
| Family structure | ||||||||
| Intact family | 15,193 | 86.67 | 4814 | 86.61 | 5988 | 75.24 | 25,995 | 83.73 |
| Non-intact family | 2336 | 13.33 | 744 | 13.39 | 1971 | 24.76 | 5051 | 16.27 |
| Types of non-intact family | ||||||||
| Transnational | 115 | 0.66 | 234 | 4.21 | 1133 | 14.24 | 1482 | 4.77 |
| Separation | 1794 | 10.23 | 328 | 5.9 | 376 | 4.72 | 2498 | 8.05 |
| Death | 281 | 1.6 | 80 | 1.44 | 200 | 2.51 | 561 | 1.81 |
| Don’t know | 146 | 0.83 | 102 | 1.84 | 262 | 3.29 | 510 | 1.64 |
| Total | 17,529 | 100 | 5558 | 100 | 7959 | 100 | 31,046 | 100 |
Mean and standard deviation (SD) are reported for continuous variables; cell size (N) and column percentages (%, in italics) are reported for categorical variables. N = 31,046. Unweighted data. Source: Integration of the Second Generation survey (ISTAT 2015)