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. Preprint / 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 ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1195-8938, Sosu, Edward and Dare, Shadrach;
    • Item type:Monograph(Preprint / Working Paper)
      ID code:72680
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      20 March 2020
      Published
      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:23 Sep 2021 01:01
      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72680
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