Neighborhood Social Capital, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Change of Neighborhood as Predictors of School Readiness
Table 2
Predicting repeated exposures to household or neighbourhood disadvantage from age 1 to age 5.
Times in poor household
Times in poor neighbourhood
Times in un-neighbourly neighbourhood
Odds ratio*
Odds ratio*
Odds ratio*
Intercept
0.19
3.82
0.000
0.0
0.25
3.71
0.000
0.2
0.15
4.52
0.000
Province (ref.: Ontario)
Maritimes
0.29
4.58
0.000
3.0
0.14
3.17
0.002
3.7
0.420
0.39
Quebec
0.23
3.74
0.000
2.4
0.18
3.78
0.000
2.5
0.13
2.90
0.004
1.6
Prairies
0.18
3.40
0.001
1.4
0.00
0.03
0.974
0.6
0.07
1.76
0.078
1.18
BC
0.00
−0.05
0.960
0.7
0.608
0.6
0.793
0.7
Female
0.02
0.49
0.625
1.2
0.03
0.97
0.331
0.9
0.508
1.1
Visible Minorities (ref.: other)
Black
0.92
4.00
0.000
6.0
0.28
1.36
0.175
1.5
0.56
2.25
0.025
6.8
Chinese
0.14
0.76
0.448
0.9
0.18
0.88
0.378
3.2
0.00
0.01
0.991
1.78
Native/aboriginal
1.36
7.06
0.000
16.3
0.06
0.83
0.409
0.5
0.13
1.51
0.130
1
South Asian
0.51
3.42
0.001
2.9
0.10
0.56
0.573
1.7
0.16
1.17
0.243
4.07
PMK spoke non-official language
0.18
2.43
0.015
1.7
0.07
0.79
0.432
0.9
0.07
1.23
0.218
1.3
PMK born outside Canada
0.10
1.33
0.182
1.1
0.22
2.99
0.003
4.0
0.02
0.37
0.712
0.81
Size of settlement (ref.: over 500 K)
Rural area
0.03
0.25
0.801
0.7
0.02
0.33
0.740
2.6
−0.13
−3.72
0.000
0.2
Urban under 30 K
0.02
0.39
0.697
0.8
0.921
0.6
0.046
0.45
Urban from 30 K to 10 C
0.37
5.15
0.000
2.1
0.360
0.3
0.05
0.84
0.402
0.88
Urban from 100 K to 5 C
0.10
1.80
0.072
1.1
−2.65
0.008
0.4
0.06
1.28
0.201
1.53
CSD used for Census profile
n/a
−2.69
0.007
0.2
n/a
n/a
Followup of one-year-olds to age 5 from 1998-99 to 2002-3. NLSCY data with longitudinal weights, OLS Regressions with bootstrap weights, and Odds ratios from binary logistic regression with bootstrap weights.
