Mapping inequalities in school attendance : the relationship between different dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence
Klein, Markus and Sosu, Edward and Dare, Shadrach (2020) Mapping inequalities in school attendance : the relationship between different dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence. Working paper. SocArXiv, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigated whether and to what extent dimensions of socioeconomic background (parental education,parental class, free school meal registration, housing status, and neighborhood deprivation) predict overall school absences and different reasons for missing school (truancy, sickness, family holidays and temporary exclusion) among 4,620 secondary pupils in Scotland. Participants were drawn from a sample of the Scottish Longitudinal Study comprising linked Census data and administrative school records. Using fractional logit models and logistic regressions, we found that all dimensions of socioeconomic background were uniquely linked to overall absences. Multiple measures of socioeconomic background were also associated with truancy, sickness-related absence and temporary exclusion. Social housing and parental education had the most pervasive effect across these forms of absenteeism.
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Klein, Markus ![]() | Item type: | Monograph(Working paper) |
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ID code: | 72680 |
Keywords: | school absences, school attendance, truancy, school suspension, socioeconimc status, inequality, Education, Education |
Subjects: | Education |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 10 Jun 2020 14:54 |
Last modified: | 11 Feb 2021 11:15 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72680 |
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