Mother's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 4 or equivalent (nvq4) 30.22
Mother's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 5 or equivalent (nvq5) 3.80
Mother's Highest Qualification: Overseas and other unclassified (nvq6) 2.15
Mother's Highest Qualification: None (nvq7) 11.33
Father's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 1 or equivalent (nvqf1) 5.64
Father's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 2 or equivalent (nvqf2) 22.96
Father's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 3 or equivalent (nvqf3) 13.25
Father's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 4 or equivalent (nvqf4) 27.08
Father's Highest Qualification: NVQ level 5 or equivalent (nvqf5) 5.36
Father's Highest Qualification: Overseas and other unclassified (nvqf6) 2.27
Father's Highest Qualification: None (nvqf7) 8.30
Mother's longstanding illness (longill) 21.51
Father's longstanding illness (longillp) 17.55
Area type: Advantaged Ward (area1) Non-ethnic in top three quarters of child
poverty, index 1998 61.49
Area type: Disadvantaged Ward (area2) Non-ethnic in bottom quartile of child
poverty index 1998 34.31
Area type: Ethnic Ward (area3) > 30% population Black or Asian at 1991census 4.20
Weighted mean and standard deviation
1.89
Total number of children in family (totlivch) (1.61)
Observations 17822
Note: These are calculated for all observations that appear in at least one of the regressions in
strand 2
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