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Literacy and Life Skills for Māori Adults - Further Investigation: Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) Survey

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This report — which complements Literacy and Life Skills for Maori Adults — investigates the extent to which the distribution of literacy among Maori adults is associated with a range of potential explanatory factors.

Author(s): Paul Satherley and Elliot Lawes [Research Division, Ministry of Education]

Date Published: August 2009

Appendix 1

Appendix Table 1.1: Standardised regression coefficients for document literacy model, ALL only
Notes:
  1. Figures in bold are estimates significant at the 5 percent level.
  2. Stage 1 of the model excluded time spent in formal education and income, stage 2 included income but excluded time spent in formal education, and stage 3 included both time spent in formal education and income. This is indicated by asterisks in the appropriate cells.
  3. se means standard error.
Variable  Stage 1 estimate  Stage 1 se  Stage 2 estimate  Stage 2 se  Stage 3 estimate  Stage 3 se 
Time in formal education (years) * * * * 0.353 0.032
Income (log income in 000s) * * 0.118 0.037 0.046 0.035
Age 0.072 0.049 0.029 0.051 0.022 0.048
Age squared (centred at 36.1 years) -0.173 0.041 -0.125 0.043 -0.083 0.042
Interaction between age and benefits -0.174 0.042 -0.142 0.043 -0.116 0.041
Wages (0 = no wage, 1 = wage earner) 0.126 0.050 0.103 0.050 0.051 0.045
Other income source (0 = income source “standard”, 1 = income not wages or benefits) 0.084 0.032 0.072 0.029 0.052 0.026
Employment (0 = not employed, 1 = employed) 0.096 0.058 0.074 0.060 0.051 0.053
Gender (0 = female, 1 = male) -0.071 0.038 -0.108 0.040 -0.062 0.037
Student status (0 = not student, 1 = student) 0.134 0.037 0.143 0.039 0.067 0.038

The stage 1 model accounted for approximately 10 percent of the variance in document literacy scores, the stage 2 model approximately 11 % and the stage 3 model approximately 21 percent.

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