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Table 3 Academic outcomes for Māori, Pacific and non-Māori non-Pacific students

From: Patterns of privilege: A total cohort analysis of admission and academic outcomes for Māori, Pacific and non-Māori non-Pacific health professional students

Academic outcome variables

Ethnic grouping

Māori

(n = 150)

Pacific

(n = 257)

nMnP

(n = 2279)

Total

(n = 2686)

Categorical variables

n

%

P value

n

%

P value

n

%

n

%

First year bachelors passed all

  

<0.0001

  

<0.0001

 

ref.

  

 No

59

39.3

 

152

59.1

 

492

21.6

703

26.2

 Yes

91

60.7

 

105

40.9

 

1786

78.4

1982

73.8

Missing

0

0.0

 

0

0.0

 

1

0.0

1

0.0

Programme passed all

  

<0.0001

  

<0.0001

 

ref.

  

 No

63

42.0

 

155

60.3

 

538

23.6

756

28.2

 Yes

86

57.3

 

102

39.7

 

1741

76.4

1929

71.8

Missing

1

0.7

 

0

0.0

 

0

0.0

1

0.0

Graduated FMHS

  

0.0078

  

0.0023

 

ref.

  

 No

44

29.3

 

73

28.4

 

461

20.2

578

21.5

 Yes

106

70.7

 

184

71.6

 

1818

79.8

2108

78.5

Graduated intended programme

  

0.0005

  

0.0007

 

ref.

  

 No

51

34.0

 

80

31.1

 

496

21.8

627

23.3

 Yes

99

66.0

 

177

68.9

 

1783

78.2

2059

76.7

Graduated in minimum timeb

  

0.0473

  

<0.0001

 

ref.

  

 No

21

21.2

 

52

29.4

 

250

14.0

323

15.7

 Yes

78

78.8

 

125

70.6

 

1533

86.0

1736

84.3

Composite Outcome

  

0.0002

  

<.0001

 

ref.

  

 Optimal completion

14

9.3

 

6

2.3

 

450

19.7

470

17.5

 Suboptimal completion high

72

48.0

 

110

42.8

 

1193

52.3

1375

51.2

 Suboptimal completion low

20

13.3

 

68

26.5

 

175

7.7

263

9.8

 Non-completion

44

29.3

 

73

28.4

 

461

20.2

578

21.5

Programme graduated froma

  

  

    

 BHSc

50

49.0

 

113

62.1

 

337

18.6

500

23.9

 BNurs

28

27.4

 

42

23.1

 

656

36.2

726

34.6

 BPharm

24

23.5

 

27

14.8

 

818

45.2

869

41.5

Continuous variables

Mean

SD

P value

Mean

SD

P value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

First year bachelor GPA

3.63

1.71

<0.0001

2.83

1.64

<0.0001

4.69

1.94

4.45

1.99

Year 2 – 4 programme GPA

4.36

1.90

<0.0001

3.48

1.82

<0.0001

5.21

1.69

5.00

1.79

Year 1 – 4 programme GPA

4.05

1.63

3.21

1.56

4.95

1.59

4.73

1.68

  1. aStudents may be double counted if they enrolled in more than one programme. Results are presented for those variables that were tested for significant differences between ethnic groupings (the reference group of comparison is nMnP)
  2. bOnly calculated for those graduated intended programme