The determinants of the transition from lower secondary to upper secondary school of Italian and immigrant teenagers (16-19 age range) were identified joining the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and the Italian Survey on Income and Living Conditions of Families with Immigrants in Italy (IM-SILC) for 2009. A set of individual, family, and contextual characteristics was selected through the Lasso method and a Bayesian approach to explain the choice of upper secondary schooling (yes/no). The transition from the low secondary to upper secondary school showed a complex pattern involving many variables: compared to men, women did not prove to have any differences, many components of income entered the model in a parabolic form, education level and income of parents proved to be very important, as was their occupation. The contextual factors revealed their importance: the latter included the degree of urbanisation, the South macro-region, household tenure status, the amount of optional technological equipment, and so on. Differences between Italians and immigrants disappeared when family background and parental characteristics were taken into account.

Determinants of the transition to the upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians / Frederic, Patrizio; Lalla, Michele. - (2021), pp. 13-18. (Intervento presentato al convegno Statistics and information systems for policy evaluation tenutosi a Firenze nel 06–08 September 2021) [10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8].

Determinants of the transition to the upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians

Patrizio Frederic
;
Michele Lalla
2021

Abstract

The determinants of the transition from lower secondary to upper secondary school of Italian and immigrant teenagers (16-19 age range) were identified joining the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and the Italian Survey on Income and Living Conditions of Families with Immigrants in Italy (IM-SILC) for 2009. A set of individual, family, and contextual characteristics was selected through the Lasso method and a Bayesian approach to explain the choice of upper secondary schooling (yes/no). The transition from the low secondary to upper secondary school showed a complex pattern involving many variables: compared to men, women did not prove to have any differences, many components of income entered the model in a parabolic form, education level and income of parents proved to be very important, as was their occupation. The contextual factors revealed their importance: the latter included the degree of urbanisation, the South macro-region, household tenure status, the amount of optional technological equipment, and so on. Differences between Italians and immigrants disappeared when family background and parental characteristics were taken into account.
2021
Statistics and information systems for policy evaluation
Firenze
06–08 September 2021
13
18
Frederic, Patrizio; Lalla, Michele
Determinants of the transition to the upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians / Frederic, Patrizio; Lalla, Michele. - (2021), pp. 13-18. (Intervento presentato al convegno Statistics and information systems for policy evaluation tenutosi a Firenze nel 06–08 September 2021) [10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8].
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