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Table 3 Multivariate simple linear regression analysis: Correlations between Language Environment Analysis (LENA) outcome measures (AWC, CTC and CVC) and family characteristics

From: The home language environment in rural China: variations across family characteristics

VARIABLES

lnAWC

lnCTC

lnCVC

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1)

Age of child (months)

-0.02

0.00

0.04

  

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(2)

Sex (1 = boy)

0.06

0.20

0.13

  

(0.14)

(0.22)

(0.17)

(3)

Age of mother (years)

0.01

0.04

0.03

  

(0.03)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(4)

Maternal education level (1 = completed middle school or above)

0.09

0.04

-0.12

  

(0.26)

(0.27)

(0.14)

(5)

Mother is the primary caregiver (1 = yes)

-0.18

-0.08

0.02

  

(0.13)

(0.22)

(0.12)

(6)

Number of adults in the household

0.13

0.09

0.00

  

(0.05)

(0.10)

(0.10)

(7)

Whether there are siblings at home (1 = yes)

-0.25

-0.27

-0.12

  

(0.21)

(0.36)

(0.15)

(8)

Paternal education level (1 = completed middle school or above)

0.29

0.17

-0.01

  

(0.23)

(0.20)

(0.14)

(9)

Father lived at home during most of the last year (1 = yes)

-0.04

-0.02

-0.00

  

(0.14)

(0.18)

(0.14)

(10)

Asset index (PCA score)

0.00

0.05

-0.02

  

(0.06)

(0.08)

(0.04)

(11)

Observations

38

38

38

  1. Source: Authors’ survey.
  2. Standard errors in parentheses; standard errors were adjusted at the village cluster level. In our multivariate simple linear regressions, to control the family-wise error rate, we used the Bonferroni Correction to adjust the α value used to assess significance. The new α value is *p < 0.005