Educational Attainment and Educational Mismatch in the First Employment in Spain

Table 3

Descriptive statistics.

Variable	Mean	Standard; deviation
Male	0.562	0.496
Spanish	0.991	0.092
Compulsory education	0.408	0.357
Upper secondary education	0.105	0.307
Lower vocational education	0.108	0.310
Upper vocational education	0.162	0.368
University education	0.215	0.186
Father is illiterate or has primary education	0.655	0.473
Father has upper secondary education	0.093	0.291
Father has higher education	0.109	0.316
Father is unemployed	0.058	0.435
Father is inactive	0.261	0.254
Father is a manager	0.070	0.258
Father is a professional	0.072	0.270
Father is a clerk	0.079	0.479
Father is a skilled worker	0.351	0.261
Father is a nonskilled worker	0.073	0.236
1991	0.099	0.298
1992	0.115	0.309
1993	0.116	0.326
1994	0.123	0.330
1995	0.124	0.327
1996	0.116	0.329
1997	0.113	0.317
1998	0.100	0.312
1999	0.095	0.299
Andalusia	0.199	0.409
Aragón	0.038	0.187
Asturias	0.026	0.160
Baleares Islands	0.024	0.148
Canary Islands	0.056	0.224
Cantabria	0.023	0.155
Castilla León	0.083	0.276
Castilla La Mancha	0.070	0.260
Catalonia	0.104	0.297
Valencian Community	0.085	0.276
Extremadura	0.040	0.206
Galicia	0.065	0.243
Madrid	0.059	0.232
Murcia	0.033	0.184
Navarre	0.020	0.136
Basque Country	0.052	0.222
La Rioja	0.013	0.119

Source: Spanish Module Data on School to Work Transitions (2000) and own elaboration.