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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 4 First- and second-generation students in upper secondary school: main countries of origin

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

Source country	Second generation
	Female students		Male students
	Mother’s source country	Father’s source country	Mother’s source country	Father’s source country
Albania	6.80	6.31	5.09	5.53
China	7.28	7.04	5.75	5.75
Morocco	8.01	7.52	7.96	8.19
Philippines	8.74	8.74	7.08	7.08
Tunisia	3.4	3.88	5.09	5.87

	First Generation
	Mother’s source country	Father’s source country	Mother’s source country	Father’s source country
Albania	13.70	13.55	15.29	15.33
Moldova	8.49	8.41	6.33	5.65
Romania	25.72	24.73	18.96	17.91
Morocco	5.94	6.01	6.76	6.76
Ukraine	6.51	5.44	4.35	4.05

Our elaborations on Istat data. For brevity, we report parents’ countries of origin when at least 5% of the sampled teens have parents from those countries

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