Survival Models for the Analysis of Waiting Time to First Employment of New Graduates: A Case of 2018 Debre Markos University Graduates, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 2
Analysis of associated factors of unemployment time based on Cox PH and log-logistical AFT models.
Variable
Cox PH model
value
Log-logistic model
value
HR (95% CI)
TR (95% CI)
Age
1.1 (1.07, 1.18)
<0.001
0.86 (0.82, 0.9)
<0.001
Gender (reference: female)
Male
1.19 (0.96, 1.46)
0.12
0.82 (0.69, 0.98)
0.03
College/faculty (reference: medicine and health science)
CANaRM
2.41 (1.91, 3.05)
<0.001
0.43 (0.33, 0.55
<0.001
CHM
1.96 (1.56, 2.46)
<0.001
0.48 (0.37, 0.61)
<0.001
IEBS
3.08 (1.98, 4.79)
<0.001
0.29 (0.17, 0.51)
<0.001
Law
1.85 (0.96, 3.58)
0.067
0.71 (0.37, 1.38)
0.3
NCS
1.99 (1.46, 2.71)
<0.001
0.48 (0.34, 0.69)
<0.001
Technology
4.59 (3.53, 5.96)
<0.001
0.19 (0.14, 0.27)
<0.001
Region (reference: Addis Ababa)
Amhara
1.07 (0.66, 1.73)
0.80
1.13 (0.74, 1.74)
0.57
Oromia
1.03 (0.54, 1.96)
0.93
1.27 (0.72, 2.24)
0.41
SNNPR
1.35 (0.76, 2.41)
0.30
0.73 (0.43, 1.24)
0.24
Tigray
1.65 (0.81, 3.38)
0.17
0.78 (0.42, 1.46)
0.44
Others
1.09 (0.45, 2.64)
0.80
1.04 (0.48, 2.27)
0.92
CGPA category (reference: 3.75–4.00)
2.00_2.74
0.41 (0.28, 0.60)
<0.001
2.32 (1.64, 3.28)
<0.001
2.75–3.24
0.57 (0.40, 0.80)
<0.001
1.71 (1.23, 2.38)
<0.001
3.25–3.74
0.75 (0.54, 1.04)
0.08
1.31 (0.95, 1.82)
0.09
Residence (reference: rural)
Urban
2.15 (1.78, 2.58)
<0.001
0.5 (0.43, 0.59)
<0.001
Graduate studied his/her preferred fields of study
