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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 13 Summary statistics—students attending lower secondary school

From: Cultural persistence or change? Gender differences in educational expectations of first and second-generation immigrants in Italy

Variables

First and second generation

First generation

Italians

Female students

Male students

Female students

Male students

Female students

Male students

%

%

%

%

%

%

Upper secondary schoola

81.45

75.11

77.32

69.86

88.96

85.25

North-East

35.57

30.40

35.12

30.99

32.81

31.98

North-West

25.51

28.01

25.17

27.48

22.93

25.29

Center

23.28

25.48

23.42

26.21

24.25

24.44

South

11.07

10.62

11.38

10.86

13.56

11.56

Isles

4.57

5.50

4.91

4.45

6.45

5.68

Second generation

56.41

50.73

    

First Generation

      

 Arrived before 2003

3.13

3.54

7.19

7.18

  

 Arrived in 2003/2007

14.53

17.54

33.34

35.59

  

 Arrived in 2008/2014

23.10

25.19

52.99

51.12

  

 Arrived in 2015

2.82

3.01

6.48

6.10

  

Working father

85.31

86.12

83.19

83.28

93.06

94.20

Working mother

62.78

64.71

60.10

57.59

71.33

72.40

BigMun

16.33

15.25

17.21

16.26

16.62

12.65

Mixed couplesb

14.66

13.13

7.38

7.18

  
 

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Family wealth

2.941 (0.020)

2.847 (0.014)

2.944 (0.015)

2.892 (0.014)

2.826 (0.013)

2.872 (0.007)

Father’s education

3.537 (0.039)

3.595 (0.031)

3.561 (0.037)

3.619 (0.028)

3.741 (0.021)

3.693 (0.012)

Mother’s education

3.619 (0.035)

3.635 (0.030)

3.554 (0.035)

3.559 (0.029)

3.850 (0.020)

3.795 (0.011)

ENR90

16.598 (0.350)

15.617 (0.341)

13.628 (0.313)

12.338 (0.210)

  

ENR15

  

45.879 (0.589)

43.968 (0.459)

  

GDP-90

6.446 (340.231)

5.509 (275.340)

2.667 (0.160)

2.143 (0.092)

  

GDP-15

  

7.584 (0.358)

6.600 (0.186)

  

GII-15

  

0.327(0.004)

0.337(0.003)

  
  1. Our elaborations on Istat data. aDependent variable equal to 1 if the individual will attend the upper secondary school, 0 otherwise. bPercentage of teens with only one parent born abroad. Among second-generation teens the percentages of mixed couples are, respectively, 38% among females and 35% among males. Variables are defined in Table 1