Relationship between demographic variables and outcomes
| Outcome variables | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | EPM decile | p Value | EPM total | p Value | SJT score | p Value | UKFPO total | p Value |
| Age at entry*; rank correlation (r) | 0.034 | 0.008 | 0.126 | <0.001 | −0.054 | <0.001 | −0.057 | <0.001 |
| Gender; median (IQR)† | ||||||||
| Male | 5 (3–8) | <0.001 | 38 (41–44) | <0.001 | 40.4 (38.3–42.3) | <0.001 | 81.1 (76.9–85.2) | <0.001 |
| Female | 6 (4–8) | 38 (41–44) | 41.3 (39.1–43.3) | 82.4 (78.3–86.4) | ||||
| Ethnic group; median (IQR)† | ||||||||
| Caucasian | 6 (4–9) | <0.001 | 41 (38–44) | <0.001 | 41.3 (39.2–43.3) | <0.001 | 82.8 (78.8–86.6) | <0.001 |
| Non-Caucasian | 5 (2–7) | 40 (37–43) | 39.9 (37.7–41.9) | 79.9 (75.8–83.9) | ||||
| Type of secondary school attended; median (IQR)† | ||||||||
| Fee paying | 6 (3–8) | <0.001 | 41 (38–44) | 0.872 | 41.1 (39–43.2) | 0.488 | 82.1 (78–86.1) | 0.776 |
| Non-fee paying | 6 (3–8) | 41 (38–44) | 41 (38.9–43) | 82.1 (77.7–86.1) | ||||
| IMD quintile; median (IQR)‡ | ||||||||
| Most affluent—I | 6 (4–8) | <0.001 | 41 (38–44) | <0.001 | 41.3 (38–44) | <0.001 | 82.4 (78.4–86.3) | <0.001 |
| II | 6 (3–8) | 41 (38–44) | 41.3 (38–44) | 82.4 (78.3–86.5) | ||||
| III | 6 (3–8) | 41 (38–44) | 41.0 (38–44) | 81.8 (77.5–85.6) | ||||
| IV | 6 (3–8) | 41 (38–43) | 40.6 (38–43) | 81.0 (77.1–85.3) | ||||
| least affluent—V | 5 (2–8) | 40 (38–43) | 40.2 (37–43) | 80.3 (76.5–84.1) | ||||
| NSSEC; median (IQR)‡ | ||||||||
| NSSEC categories | ||||||||
| 1 | 6 (3–8) | 0.072 | 41 (38–44) | 0.006 | 41.1 (39.1–43.1) | <0.001 | 82.3 (78.4–86.2) | <0.001 |
| 2 | 6 (3–8) | 40 (37–43) | 41.1 (38.9–42.9) | 80.8 (78.3–84.1) | ||||
| 3 | 5 (3–8) | 41 (38–44) | 40.6 (38.3–42.8) | 81.5 (77.5–84.9) | ||||
| 4 | 5 (3–8) | 40 (37–43) | 39.9 (37.8–42.2) | 80.8 (77.1–83.6) | ||||
| 5 | 5 (3–7) | 39 (37–42) | 40.0 (37.8–42.0) | 78.7 (76.5–83.6) | ||||
| Domicile categories; median (IQR)‡ | ||||||||
| EU | 6 (4–8) | <0.001 | 42 (40–45) | <0.001 | 40.2 (38.2–42.5) | <0.001 | 82.5 (79.2–85.9) | <0.001 |
| International | 4 (2–7) | 39 (36–43) | 39.3 (36.5–41.3) | 78.8 (73.9–83.3) | ||||
| UK | 6 (3–8) | 41 (38–44) | 41 (38.8–43.1) | 82.0 (77.9–86) | ||||
*Spearman's correlation coefficient.
†Mann-Whitney U test.
‡Kruskal-Wallis test.
EPM, Educational Performance Measure; EU, European Union; IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation; NSSEC, National Statistics Socio-economic Classification; SJT, situational judgement test; UKFPO, UK Foundation Programme.