Mapping inequalities in school attendance: The relationship between dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence
Mapping inequalities in school attendance: The relationship between dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105432
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发表时间：
2020-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Dare, Shadrach
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作者：
Klein, Markus;Sosu, Edward M.;Dare, Shadrach
在这篇文章中，我们调查了社会经济背景的各个方面（父母教育，父母阶级，免费校餐登记，住房状况和邻里剥夺）是否以及在多大程度上预测整体缺课和缺课的不同原因（逃学，生病，家庭假期和临时排斥）在苏格兰的4，620名中学生。学生来自苏格兰纵向研究的样本，包括相关的人口普查数据和行政学校记录。使用分数logit模型和逻辑回归，我们发现，社会经济背景的所有维度都与整体缺席有独特的联系。社会经济背景的多项措施也与逃学，疾病相关的缺席，和临时排斥。社会住房和父母教育与所有形式的缺勤中的缺勤有最普遍的联系。我们的研究结果强调，需要考虑多维度的社会经济背景的政策和研究决定对学校缺勤。需要更加明确地注重缩小旷课方面的社会经济差距，以缩小教育和毕业后成果方面的不平等差距。
In this article, we investigated whether and to what extent various dimensions of socioeconomic background (parental education, parental class, free school meal registration, housing status, and neighborhood deprivation) predict overall school absences and different reasons for absenteeism (truancy, sickness, family holidays and temporary exclusion) among 4,620 secondary school pupils in Scotland. Students were drawn from a sample of the Scottish Longitudinal Study comprising linked Census data and administrative school records. Using fractional logit models and logistic regressions, we found that all dimensions of socioeconomic background were uniquely linked to overall absences. Multiple measures of socioeconomic background were also associated with truancy, sickness-related absence, and temporary exclusion. Social housing and parental education had the most pervasive associations with school absences across all forms of absenteeism. Our findings highlight the need to consider the multidimensionality of socioeconomic background in policy and research decisions on school absenteeism. A more explicit focus on narrowing the socioeconomic gap in absenteeism is required to close the inequality gap in educational and post-school outcomes.