Table 2.
The relationship between attending a dual career sport program/school and athletic characteristics as well as post career educational and employment outcomes.
| Athletic characteristics and post career outcomes | DCS-IL | DCS-NL | MSS | Total | Χ2/value of p | Cramer’s V | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||||
| Gender | 1.81/0.405 | 0.083 | |||||||
| Men | 52 | (34) | 18 | (12) | 81 | (54) | 151 (100) | ||
| Women | 30 | (27) | 16 | (14) | 66 | (59) | 112 (100) | ||
| Type of sport | 13.69/0.001 | 0.228 | |||||||
| Team | 18 | (18) | 18 | (18) | 63 | (64) | 99 (100) | ||
| Individual | 64 | (39) | 16 | (10) | 84 | (51) | 164 (100) | ||
| Sporting success | 1.43/0.839 | 0.052 | |||||||
| World class elite | 42 | (31) | 20 | (15) | 72 | (54) | 134 (100) | ||
| Successful elite | 27 | (32) | 8 | (10) | 48 | (58) | 83 (100) | ||
| Competitive elite | 13 | (29) | 6 | (13) | 26 | (58) | 45 (100) | ||
| Highest level of education | 1.89/0.389 | 0.090 | |||||||
| University | 36 | (30) | 21 | (14) | 79 | (56) | 136 (100) | ||
| Upper secondary school | 33 | (35) | 12 | (13) | 50 | (53) | 95 (100) | ||
| Limited opportunities for higher education | 9.21/0.056 | 0.134 | |||||||
| Yes | 17 | (40) | 4 | (9) | 22 | (51) | 43 (100) | ||
| Partly | 33 | (33) | 18 | (18) | 48 | (49) | 99 (100) | ||
| No | 29 | (25) | 11 | (10) | 76 | (65) | 116 (100) | ||
| Employment | 4.84/0.304 | 0.097 | |||||||
| Employed | 45 | (29) | 19 | (12) | 91 | (59) | 155 (100) | ||
| Own company | 30 | (34) | 11 | (12) | 48 | (54) | 89 (100) | ||
| Off duty/student | 5 | (46) | 3 | (27) | 3 | (27) | 11 (100) | ||
| Economic situation | 1.03/0.596 | 0.075 | |||||||
| Better | 41 | (30) | 18 | (13) | 77 | (57) | 136 (100) | ||
| Worse | 19 | (38) | 6 | (12) | 25 | (50) | 50 (100) | ||
| Total | 82 | (31) | 34 | (13) | 147 | (56) | 263 (100) | ||
DCS-IL = dual career support international level; DCS-NL = dual career support national level; MSS = mainstream secondary. Due to internal missing data, different numbers of participants may vary within each category. Cramer’s V: 0.10—weak association, 0.30—moderate, 0.50—strong association.