Research Article
The Effectiveness of Educational Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Tanzania and Uganda
Table 3
Mean student absenteeism rate by student status, stratified by gender.
| | Male | Female |
| Mean student absenteeism rate (Uganda and Tanzania) | | | Non-OVC () | 5.7% | 5.3% | OVC never supported () | 5.3% | 4.9% | OVC ever supported () | 6.3% | 5.9% | Mean student absenteeism rate (Uganda) | | | Non-OVC () | 6.8%* | 6.0%* | OVC never supported () | 7.4% | 6.2% | OVC ever supported () | 5.8% | 5.5% | Mean student absenteeism rate (Tanzania) | | | Non-OVC () | 5.4% | 4.7% | OVC never supported () | 3.8% | 3.5% | OVC ever supported () | 7.1% | 6.0% |
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Paired -test compared the means of two groups of observations: male versus female students.
*Gender significantly different at .
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