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Training Opportunities: Exploring what happens two months later

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This paper builds on previous statistical analysis published by the Ministry of Education on Training Opportunities, a programme designed to help people get into the labour force through providing training and foundation skills.

Author(s): Paul Mahoney, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting Division [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: February 2010

Gender

The learner’s gender was the tenth largest predictor in the model of placement outcome. Employment was the most likely outcome for males, however females were more likely to go into further training or return to Training Opportunities than attain an other outcome.

Table 2– Odds ratio of labour market outcometo other outcome categorybygender
Gender Outcome Estimate Pr > ChiSq Odds ratio
Female Employed (full and part-time) -0.22 0.00 0.94
  Return to Training Opportunities -0.12 0.00 1.01
  Further progressive training -0.02 0.02 1.08
Male Employed (full and part-time) 0.22 ref 1.06
  Return to Training Opportunities 0.12 ref 0.99
  Further progressive training 0.02 ref 0.93

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