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Table 2 Occupational expectations (ISEI scores ranging from 16 to 90) of immigrant students with different linguistic capitals: unstandardized coefficients from regressions with balanced repeat replicate weights

From: Immigrant optimism or immigrant pragmatism? Linguistic capital, orientation towards science and occupational expectations of adolescent immigrants

 

Migrants speak different language home & school

Migrants speak same language home & school

Female

Economic, social, and cultural status of family

Academic achievement: science

Vocational program

(Constant)

R Squared

 

Coeff

SE

Coeff

SE

Coeff

SE

Coeff

SE

Coeff

SE

Coeff

SE

N

Australia

9.9

0.7

5.4

0.6

7.1

0.4

3.8

0.3

6.5

0.20

− 4.2

0.7

24.7

0.22

14530

Austria

10.0

1.0

7.6

1.5

5.2

0.7

3.8

0.4

6.7

0.43

− 11.6

0.8

30.1

0.27

7007

Belgium

9.5

1.2

6.3

1.2

6.8

0.8

2.2

0.4

7.8

0.52

− 14.2

1.5

22.9

0.37

3976

Canada

9.7

0.5

7.9

0.5

8.3

0.4

4.1

0.2

5.3

0.22

na

 

30.7

0.22

20043

Switzerland

9.5

1.0

6.3

0.9

6.2

0.7

5.4

0.4

8.4

0.48

− 5.6

1.8

10.2

0.25

5860

Germany

11.3

1.0

10.3

1.8

5.2

0.6

5.6

0.4

7.6

0.33

− 7.8

2.0

13.5

0.25

6504

Denmark

13.8

1.6

15.0

1.2

7.4

1.0

5.0

0.5

6.9

0.34

na

 

22.1

0.20

7161

Spain

5.9

1.1

6.7

1.1

8.0

0.5

3.0

0.2

7.0

0.36

− 9.8

3.1

29.0

0.22

6736

France

11.4

1.1

11.5

0.9

4.8

0.6

4.5

0.4

7.8

0.34

− 11.6

0.9

20.0

0.35

6108

Great Britain

7.1

1.2

8.0

1.0

4.4

0.5

2.8

0.3

5.7

0.23

− 2.1

1.5

33.4

0.17

14157

Greece

− 3.1

1.8

1.1

1.2

7.6

0.6

2.6

0.3

5.7

0.36

− 8.2

0.8

38.2

0.25

5532

Ireland

7.5

0.9

5.1

1.0

5.1

0.6

2.9

0.3

6.8

0.36

− 13.0

3.4

28.0

0.18

5741

Israel

− 1.6

1.1

0.3

0.9

5.5

0.6

0.6

0.3

2.6

0.28

na

 

55.0

0.06

6598

Luxembourg

4.3

0.7

2.1

0.9

4.1

0.5

3.2

0.4

9.1

0.36

− 4.9

0.7

14.4

0.28

5299

Netherlands

14.1

1.5

13.6

1.5

2.1

0.7

3.8

0.4

5.5

0.44

− 9.9

0.8

30.5

0.25

5385

Norway

14.2

1.2

9.0

1.2

8.9

0.5

6.1

0.6

6.4

0.37

na

 

22.7

0.22

5456

New Zealand

9.4

0.8

6.5

0.9

7.4

0.6

3.3

0.4

5.7

0.35

na

 

28.5

0.21

4520

Sweden

15.8

1.0

13.7

1.4

8.3

0.6

5.0

0.4

6.5

0.26

na

 

20.5

0.23

5458

United States

6.3

0.7

4.8

0.9

7.2

0.6

2.4

0.3

3.9

0.32

na

 

43.2

0.12

5712

  1. Non-immigrants are the reference category. Data from PISA 2015
  2. Coefficients in bold are significantly different from zero at p = 0.05, Coeff denotes unstandardized coefficient, SE denotes standard error
  3. na—In some countries PISA participants are already sorted into general and vocational streams or programs which affects their occupational expectations, so the optimal strategy is to control for this in countries where students are already differentiated into such streams or programs. Results from models that do not control for vocational education are in Additional file 1: Appendix S3. In this instance, the results are comparable
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