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Modelling Census Under-Enumeration - A Logistic Regression Perspective

The Scottish 2001 Census - Educational Qualifications

The qualification variable details the highest educational attainment of each individual. This is then aggregated at both the ward level and local authority level. The higher levels of educational qualification are Groups 3 and 4 and cover residents who have attained an HNC or higher. The highest educational attainment is very similar to the Education domain of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

The purpose of the Education domain is to measure how the key educational characteristics of a local area contribute to the overall level of deprivation and disadvantage. Previous measures have not been able to differentiate between social and educational deprivation (Noble et al, 2000 and Carstairs and Morris, 1992). Furthermore, measurement of education deprivation does not focus only on the adult population but also on school age children. Noble et al (2000) showed that the pupil performance of an area has a contributory effect on the educational and skills deprivation.

Since the educational attainment variable in the Census only considers adults aged 16 and over, it is a better proxy of educational deprivation when it comes to ascertaining the relationship between wards that were education deprived and under-enumerated. This is intuitive, as adults (in particular between ages 20-29) were more likely to be missed during the Census, than children.

Figure 1.2.9 (17 Kb PDF file) shows the breakdown of the highest educational attainment by local authority. Glasgow has the highest proportion of individuals with no qualifications, while there are more people in Edinburgh with a degree.

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