Falling behind : Socio-demographic profiles of educationally disadvantaged youth : evidence from PISA 2000-2012

The prime objectives of the Office of Research are to improve international understanding of issues relating to children’s rights and to help facilitate full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in developing, middle-income and industrialized countries. [...] Evidence from PISA 2000-2012 Innocenti Working Paper 2016-11 In the presentation of our results we exclude countries with a proportion of immigrant students below 5% as the size of the sub-sample makes estimates unreliable.4 3.3 Method In the first step of the analysis we draw on 2012 PISA data to estimate the effects of socio-economic status controlling for all other characteristics using logisti [...] For the purpose of this analysis the primary outcome of interest is ‘being in the bottom 10th percentile in any of the subjects’. [...] For example, in New Zealand, the proportion of socially disadvantaged students in the total student population is 11%, but around 30% of them fall into the bottom group in any of the subjects. [...] Across the OECD countries, 13.7% of 15-year-olds who participated in PISA 2012 were from single-parent households in the group of low-achievers in a number of countries with the largest share of children from single-parent households falling in the bottom group in Denmark, Poland and the United States (more than seven percentage points difference with the share in the total population) (Figure 4).