Is Mother’s Education or Household Poverty a Better Predictor for Girl’s School Dropout? Evidence from Aggregated Community Effects in Rural India

Table 3

Odds ratio (OR) of school dropouts by selected individual- and community-level predictors.

		Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Individual/household variables	Category	OR		OR		OR
Age (years)		1.4	0.000	1.41	0.000	1.46	0.000
Number of siblings		1.11	0.008	1.07	0.062	1.06	0.178
Caste	Others^@
	SC	1.57	0.005	1.67	0.002	1.58	0.008
	ST	1.2	0.178	1.04	0.796	1.05	0.661
Economic status	BPL family^@
	Non-BPL family	0.68	0.003	0.69	0.005	0.71	0.009
Marital status	Nonmarried^@
	Married-no Gauna	1.93	0.000	1.92	0.000	2.09	0.000
	Married-Gauna performed	5.64	0.000	5.9	0.000	6.54	0.000
Main occupation of family	Formal sector^@
	Irregular worker	1.86	0.015	1.45	0.177	1.38	0.255
	Farmer	1.07	0.669	1.02	0.936	1.01	0.983
Decision on education taken by	Only father^@
	Both parents and self	0.73	0.016	0.9	0.486	0.94	0.704
	Other than parents	1.01	0.996	0.96	0.885	0.93	0.804
Parents education	Both illiterate^@
	Any parent educated	0.5	0.000	0.5	0.000	0.49	0.000
	Both educated	0.26	0.000	0.27	0.000	0.3	0.000
Gender perception	Low^@
	Moderate			0.49	0.000	0.53	0.008
	High			0.16	0.000	0.18	0.000
Village/environmental variables
% SC and ST population						0.48	0.038
% BPL population						2.57	0.018
Mean age at marriage						0.85	0.008
% mother literacy						0.29	0.001
Constant		0.003	0.000	0.08	0.000	0.14	0.009
Adjusted R^2		0.186		0.2315		0.2573
−2 log likelihood		−797.644		−753.327		−710.387

Note. Results control for other covariates of number of siblings, main occupation in family, and decision on education. ^@Reference category.