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Table 1 Descriptive statistics (%) in the original and balanced data

From: Private schooling and admission to medicine: a case study using matched samples and causal mediation analysis

 

Treatment group

Control group

Private school

Other school

  

All

Matched

n

1980

4970

1980

Percentage of total

28.5

71.5

28.5

Female

53.2

59.0

52.9

Ethnicity

   

Asian

28.8

22.3

29.0

Chinese

4.24

2.39

3.69

White

57.0

64.8

57.6

Other

9.95

10.5

9.65

SEC

   

Higher mgr & prof

47.1

34.4

47.5

Lower mgr & prof

25.5

29.1

25.7

Intermediate

10.9

12.7

10.9

Other

16.5

23.8

16.0

Region

   

East Midlands

5.86

6.16

6.01

West Midlands

9.29

9.01

9.44

Eastern

7.88

8.03

8.03

Greater London

21.3

17.6

22.1

South East

14.1

12.6

14.1

South West

7.73

7.48

7.63

Wales

3.84

6.04

3.79

Scotland

6.57

4.43

6.31

Other

23.4

28.6

22.6

Log tariff (average value)

0.952

0.912

0.929

Admitted

61.7

51.6

52.9