Safety valve or sinkhole? Vocational schooling in South Africa

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 3 Vocational enrollment, by selected characteristics

		Ever enrolled in vocational:
	N	Any	Secondary	Post-secondary
Male	1,227	0.10	0.04	0.06
Female	1,700	0.09	0.04	0.05
Race
Black	1,522	0.09	0.04	0.05
Coloured	1,405	0.10	0.04	0.06
Household income
Poorest two quintiles	1,564	0.06	0.04	0.03
Richest three quintiles	1,363	0.12	0.04	0.07
Schooling
9-11 years	1,602	0.03	0.03	0.00
12 years	840	0.13	0.08	0.06
>12 years	485	0.21	0.01	0.20
Ability
Low	1,809	0.06	0.04	0.02
High	1,118	0.13	0.04	0.10
Re-enrollment history
Never	1,528	0.05	0.02	0.04
At least once	1,399	0.14	0.07	0.08
At least once	1,097	0.12	0.09	0.04
Before completing secondary

Sample drawn from CAPS life history data: black and coloured young adults observed until at least age 18 with valid schooling histories. Other sample restrictions described in Appendix A Data definitions. Excludes person-years corresponding to Wave 5 for which fraudulent fieldwork suspected. Sample sizes are raw counts, with survey-weighted means reported in remaining columns. Vocational secondary includes technical colleges and National Training Certificate (NTC) programs. Vocational post-secondary includes universities of technology. “High ability” refers to scoring above full sample age-adjusted median score on literacy and numeracy evaluation administered in Wave 1. Household income quintiles based on Wave 1 data.