Table 13
Demographic characteristics and school readiness indicators at cycle 5 of respondents and non-respondents to the survey at cycle 7

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Demographic characteristics and school readiness indicators at cycle 5 of respondents and non-respondents to the survey at cycle 7
  Non-respondents at cycle 7 Respondents at cycle 7
  percent
Demographic characteristics at cycle 5 (number) 544 3,379
Boys 51.6 51.1
Low income 24.2 1 14.9
Parent education high school or less 46.7 1 33.7
Single parent family 26.5 1 13.4
Parent born outside Canada 28.4 1 20.2
Community size 2  
Rural 8.3 10.9
Less than 30,000 20.1 23.8
30,000 to less than 100,000 8.2 10.4
100,000 to less than 500,000 12.0 13.8
500,000 or more 51.5 1 42.0
Region 3  
Atlantic 5.3 7.0
Quebec 21.6 22.2
Ontario 36.8 42.1
Prairie 19.4 17.3
British Columbia 17.0 1 11.4
School readiness indicators cycle 5  
Receptive vocabulary score below median 65.0 1 48.1
Number knowledge score below median 59.2 1 48.7
Copying and symbol use score below median 56.2 50.4
1.
Statistically significant difference between non-respondents and respondents, p<0.01.
2.
Overall chi square = 2.9, 4df, p=0.021.
3.
Overall chi square = 4.64, 4df, p=0.001.
Note(s):
Substantive differences are defined as percentage differences of 5 points or more. Cycle 5 cross-sectional weights and cross-sectional bootstrap weights for variance estimation were used for these non-response analyses.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada: National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth 2002/2003 and 2006/2007.