| 1 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | this table displays the results of proportion of the total gap in academic outcomes accounted for by differences in characteristics. the information is grouped by outcome variable (appearing as row headers), province of school attendance, socio-economic, school resources and practices, peers, unobserved factors and total, calculated using proportion units of measure (appearing as column headers) |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | outcome variable | province of school attendance | socio-economic | school resources and practices | peers | unobserved factors | total |
| 4 |  | proportion |  |  |  |  |  |
| 5 | reading score | 0.293 | 0.271 | -0.007 | 0.283 | 0.160 | 1.000 |
| 6 | mathematics score | 0.523 | 0.270 | -0.084 | 0.324 | -0.032 | 1.000 |
| 7 | science score | 0.255 | 0.286 | 0.130 | 0.170 | 0.159 | 1.000 |
| 8 | high school graduation | 0.722 | 0.527 | -0.137 | 0.224 | -0.337 | 1.000 |
| 9 | postsecondary attendance | 0.084 | 0.409 | -0.238 | 0.290 | 0.456 | 1.000 |
| 10 | university attendance | -0.009 | 0.547 | 0.123 | 0.364 | -0.025 | 1.000 |
| 11 | postsecondary graduation | 0.320 | 0.203 | -0.090 | 0.133 | 0.434 | 1.000 |
| 12 | university graduation | -0.010 | 0.421 | 0.054 | 0.270 | 0.265 | 1.000 |
| 13 | graduate or professional studies | 0.165 | 0.248 | 0.056 | 0.177 | 0.354 | 1.000 |

Question: which played the least role in accounting for the differences in any of the academic outcomes?
Answer: school resources and practices

Question: how much did socio-economic characteristics ,peers and province of school attendance accounted for the difference in average reading scores respectively?
Answer: 0.271, 0.283, 0.293

Question: how much did socio-economic characteristics and peers accounted for the difference in university attendance respectively?
Answer: 0.547, 0.364