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Table 2 Description of cleaned variables

From: Both sides of the story: comparing student-level data on reading performance from administrative registers to application generated data from a reading app

Variable Name

mean

std

min

25%

50%

75%

max

Reading app data

       

Reading speed

152.36

63.67

25.00

107.50

141.00

184.00

516.00

Session length (seconds)

64.73

43.76

7.00

31.55

53.00

87.00

274.00

Page turns per session

10.24

7.13

5

6

8

12

156

Sessions per student

19.77

36.03

1

3

8

21

559

lix

24.68

4.99

3

22

25

27

56

Genre of book

       

 Fiction

0.91

0.29

0

1

1

1

1

 Non-fiction

0.01

0.09

0

0

0

0

1

 Text book

0.03

0.16

0

0

0

0

1

 Unlabeled

0.07

0.25

0

0

0

0

1

Weekend reading (vs. non-weekend)

0.12

0.33

0

0

0

0

1

Schools hours 7 am to 3 pm (vs. non-school hours)

0.47

0.59

0

0

0

1

1

Reading ability test data

       

Reading ability test score

2.46

18.04

−58.0

−7.00

2.00

11.5

63.5

Grade level

4.85

1.41

1

4

5

6

9

Register data

       

Sex (boy = 1, girl = 2)

1.54

0.50

1

1

2

2

2

Age

11.37

1.51

7

10

11

12

16

Immigrant status

       

 Both student and parents born in country

0.89

0.31

0

1

1

1

1

 Born in country, but parents born abroad

0.03

0.17

0

0

0

0

1

 Born abroad like the parents

0.08

0.28

0

0

0

0

1

Number of siblings

2.32

0.91

0

2

2

3

8

Single parent

0.18

0.39

0

0

0

0

1

Log income, mother

12.57

0.54

7.41

12.34

12.60

12.86

16.40

Log income, father

12.79

0.69

3.64

12.47

12.78

13.10

19.36

Years of education, mother

14.24

2.72

6.00

12.00

15.00

17.00

20.00

Years of education, father

14.00

2.82

6.00

12.00

14.00

17.00

20.00

Occupational status, mother

59.90

20.34

11.56

44.72

67.11

76.24

88.96

Occupational status, father

57.64

22.18

11.56

35.34

65.01

75.50

88.70

  1. Note: Statistics based on reading data from August 2019 to February 2020, reading ability data and register data.