Graduates’ Unemployment and Associated Factors in Ethiopia: Analysis of Higher Education Graduates’ Perspectives

Table 6

Correlates of unemployment.

Graduates employment status	Variables	β	Std. error	Wald	df	Sig.	Exp (β)	95% confidence interval for Exp (β)
								Lower bound	Upper bound
Underemployed	Intercept	3.375	1.597	4.470	1	0.034
	Cumulative grade point of average	−0.263	0.192	1.874	1	0.171	0.769	0.527	1.120
	Gender	1.093	0.401	7.438	1	0.006	2.983	1.360	6.543
	Age	−0.404	0.164	6.074	1	0.014	0.668	0.484	0.921
	Characteristics of the curriculum	−0.049	0.027	3.294	1	0.070	0.952	0.903	1.004
	Teaching and learning	−0.009	0.038	0.062	1	0.804	0.991	0.920	1.067
	Institutional characteristics	0.005	0.015	0.108	1	0.742	1.005	0.976	1.035
	Graduate characteristics	−0.004	0.023	0.028	1	0.868	0.996	0.953	1.041
	Economic and labour market	0.027	0.027	0.953	1	0.329	1.027	0.973	1.084
	Global and emerging issues	−0.059	0.024	5.884	1	0.015	0.943	0.899	0.989
Unemployed	Intercept	6.433	1.314	23.960	1	0.000
	Cumulative grade point of average	−0.182	0.145	1.576	1	0.209	0.834	0.627	1.108
	Gender	0.604	0.341	3.129	1	0.077	1.829	0.937	3.570
	Age	−0.929	0.137	45.913	1	0.000	0.395	0.302	0.517
	Characteristics of the curriculum	−0.058	0.021	7.898	1	0.005	0.944	0.906	0.983
	Teaching and learning	0.015	0.028	0.311	1	0.577	1.016	0.962	1.072
	Institutional characteristics	−0.022	0.011	3.905	1	0.048	0.979	0.958	1.000
	Graduate characteristics	0.055	0.019	8.382	1	0.004	1.057	1.018	1.097
	Economic and labour market	−0.062	0.024	6.712	1	0.010	0.940	0.897	0.985
	Global and emerging issues	−0.032	0.021	2.399	1	0.121	0.969	0.930	1.009

^aReference category: fully employed.