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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Summary statistics—students in upper secondary school

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

Variables

Second and first generation

First generation

Italians

Female students

Male students

Female students

Male students

Female students

Male students

%

%

%

%

%

%

Univ. expectations

48.64

24.85

48.62

25.34

51.97

33.15

North-east

29.77

26.02

31.26

38.32

31.37

32.30

North-west

59.58

36.08

31.24

24.16

26.32

21.73

Center

28.33

24.69

25.33

24.35

25.10

26.29

South

9.84

9.15

9.17

19.05

3.54

5.46

Isles

2.25

4.06

3

4.15

3.54

4.60

Second generation

35.67

37.56

    

First Generation

      

 Arrived before 2003

15.14

15.64

23.53

25.05

  

 Arrived in 2003/2007

26.50

23.33

41.18

37.36

  

 Arrived in 2008/2014

21.67

22.70

33.68

36.35

  

 Arrived in 2015

1.03

0.77

1.60

1.23

  

Working father

80.24

79.99

78.58

79.49

88.93

88.93

Working mother

66.38

61.21

66.33

58.76

69.17

69.17

BigMun

23.47

15.36

23.02

14.86

15.58

15.58

Mixed Couplesa

9.96

11.87

5.02

5.36

  
 

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

Mean (std. er.)

School year

4.103 (0.031)

3.855 (0.034)

3.987 (0.030)

3.678 (0.034)

4.386 (0.011)

4.349 (0.027)

Family wealth

3.082 (0.019)

3.071 (0.022)

3.086 (0.026)

3.126 (0.017)

2.940 (0.019)

2.937 (0.018)

Father’s education

3.665 (0.031)

3.722 (0.032)

3.773 (0.035)

3.799 (0.027)

3.568 (0.031)

3.624 (0.029)

Mother’s education

3.756 (0.029)

3.765 (0.039)

3.822 (0.032)

3.757 (0.051)

3.649 (0.027)

3.687 (0.027)

ENRmale-90

19.756 (0.635)

17.603 (0.426)

16.002 (0.407)

13.984 (0.297)

30.1

30.1

ENRfemale-90

17.958 (0.522)

18.238 (0.999)

15.711 (0.358)

13.614 (0.436)

29

29

ENRmale-15

  

42.559 (0.482)

39.398 (0.485)

51.6

51.6

ENRfemale-15

  

53.432 (0.686)

48.738 (0.704)

70.8

70.8

GDP-90

6192 (0.390)

5994 (0.387)

2,570 (0.185)

2,236 (0.166)

20,825

20,825

GII-95

0.498 (0.004)

0.525 (0.006)

0.501 (0.004)

0.522 (0.005)

0.198

0.198

GDP-15

  

6838 (0.391)

6331 (0.404)

30,230

30,230

GII-15

  

0.328 (0.004)

0.349 (0.004)

0.086

0.086

  1. Variables are defined in Table 1. Our elaborations on Istat data. Weighted means
  2. aPercentage of teens with only one parent born abroad