Determinants of School Enrollment in Ethiopia
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1998
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abstract
This paper assesses empirically the role of household, community. individual and regional
factors in determining school en rollment in Ethiopia. It uses logistic regress ion and
discriminant analyses methods to analyze the data. The analyses is done in such a way that
first determinants of primary and secondary school enrollment are studied and then the
overall school enrollment is studied. Finally appropriate diagnosis is done for each of the
models.
The results from the analyses showed that age and sex of the person, relation of the person to
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the head and spouse (common child or not?), location of res idence (urban/fura!), educat ion
and occupation of the head and the spouse, the interaction of sex and local ion of residence
and the interaction of sex and distance to primary school, were important determinants of
sc hool enrollment. Distance to school. number of school age people in a hou sehold. sex of
the head, proportion of gi rls in the household, the logarithm of school expenditure, return 's
from education and the inte raction of education and occupation of the head were found
important determ inants of primary schooling in addition to those listed above. Moreover,
secondary schooling is found to be a function of education of the head, urban ru ral residence
and size of school age people.
In general, the resuhs of data analysis demonstrate the use fu lness of applying multivariate
techniques to the analysis of inter corre lated variables. The tech niques prove 10 be effective
to the extent at least 72% in discrm inant analys is and up to 83% in logistic regression of the
students (cases) are correctly classified by the computed.mputed fancton.