Interaction Effects and Absence from School

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Gill, P. E. 1977. Interaction Effects and Absence from School. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 21, 147‐156. The Automatic Interaction Detector (AID 3) is used in a search for interaction effects between absence from school and location of school, school size, location of home, age, sex, position in family and socio‐economic status among a national sample of Irish primary school children (n =2,915 from 82 schools). The analysis involves the splitting of the parent group through a series of binary splits into a number of sub‐groups which are combinations of categories from the predictor variables. The higher absenteeism of rural schools is accentuated (non‐linearly) by school size. In non‐rural schools, school size plays little part. First and last years at primary school have higher absenteeism. Within the total sample the lowest socio‐economic group tends to have higher absenteeism Within the non‐rural group, this tendency is accentuated among those living in the city centre or village. Subservient to these strong tendencies is a tendency for boys to be absent more often than girls and for position in family to affect absenteeism from school.

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