The cumulative impact of capital on dispositions across time: A 15 year perspective of young Canadians

Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 75-88

  Andres, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 80053549903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9450-7_6     Document Type: Chapter

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1. When the 1989 respondents (n = 5, 345) are compared with the original target sample (n = 10, 000), the sample is biased slightly toward women. The original target sample included 52% females and 48% males. In 1989, 57% women and 43% men responded to the Phase I follow-up. When comparing the 1989, 1993 and 1998 follow-ups, the sample has remained remarkably stable in terms of gender composition, age, and geographic location. In 1998, respondents from 71 of 75 school districts existing at the time remained in the study. A table of response rates in relation to a question about post-secondary status in 1989 can be found in Andres (2002a http://www.bccat.bc.ca/pubs/andres2002.pdf). This table demonstrates that university participants in 1989 were more likely to stay in the study over time, and nonparticipants were not. Revision of this table to include the 2003 data reveals that the proportion of those who were post-secondary participants changed from 76% in 1989 to 83% in 2003. The proportion of females in the study in 1989 was 56%; in 2003 it was 60%. In 1989, the proportion of respondents with mothers educated at low, medium, and high levels was 50%, 32%, and 18%. In 2003, these proportions were 44, 35, and 21, respectively.