Table 4

Linear regression between contextual variables and fourth year performance divided by sex

	Males					Females
Variable	x̅	SD	B	95% CI	Sig	x̅	SD	B	95% CI	Sig
School type
State comprehensive (ref)	74.07	2.31				74.37	2.51
Sixth form college	73.27	2.82	−1.02	−2.12 to 0.08	0.069	74.74	2.17	0.31	−0.35 to 0.97	0.357
State other	74.54	1.41	0.26	−1.79 to 2.30	0.806	74.77	2.06	0.34	−0.61 to 1.30	0.481
State grammar	73.91	3.04	−0.38	−1.44 to 0.69	0.485	73.93	2.38	−0.50	−1.14 to 0.14	0.127
Independent school	73.76	2.66	−1.36	−2.33 to 0.38	0.007	73.98	2.31	−0.44	−1.13 to 0.25	0.206
Ethnicity
White (ref)	74.12	2.43				74.56	2.27
Black	73.89	3.14	−0.23	−3.84 to 3.37	0.898	74.74	1.89	0.18	−2.39 to 2.75	0.890
Asian	72.01	3.03	−2.11	−3.13 to 1.10	<0.001	73.60	2.37	−0.95	−1.66 to 0.24	<0.01
Chinese	72.50	2.96	−1.62	−3.73 to 0.485	0.130	71.20	3.13	−3.35	−5.05 to 1.66	<0.001
Other	74.48	2.66	0.36	−1.48 to 2.18	0.700	73.71	2.35	−0.85	−1.83 to 0.132	0.090
Continuous variables
School performance*			0.03	−0.04 to 0.09	0.381			0.001	−0.03 to 0.3	0.961
Socioecomomic status (Index of Multiple Deprivation; percentile†)			0.002	−0.01 to 0.02	0.804			0.01	−0.003 to 0.01	0.173
Polar 3‡			0.15	−0.14 to 0.45	0.309			0.07	−0.12 to 0.25	0.491
UCAS Tariff Points			0.02	0.005 to 0.03	<0.001			0.01	0.003 to 0.02	<0.01

*School performance-based on the percentage of students achieving 3 A-levels or equivalent.
†Defined by percentiles of Index of Multiple Deprivation (1=Most deprived to =100 Least deprived).
‡Neighbourhood higher education participation (1=Lowest Participation to 5=Highest Participation).