Table 8

Differences in Ordinal Ranking of Selected Schools (Cape Coast District)

	Full Sample	Qualified Students	Qualified, Low‐Perf. Public JHS	Qualified, High‐Perf. Public JHS	Qualified, Private JHS
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Panel A: Rank Ordering by School Selectivity
q_i₁ > q_i₂ > . . . > q_iN	0.079	0.114	0.065	0.120	0.174
q_i₁ ≥ q_i2 ≥ . . . ≥ q_iN	0.100	0.140	0.085	0.148	0.206
q_i₁ = max(q_i) and q_iN = min(q_i)	0.262	0.338	0.235	0.349	0.463
q_i₁ ≥ q_iN	0.825	0.886	0.824	0.905	0.944
SD of school selectivity	0.621	0.687	0.601	0.696	0.792
Selectivity of first choice school	0.482	0.852	0.306	0.980	1.413
N	978,760	487,562	178,991	178,035	130,536
Panel B: Rank Ordering by School Selectivity; JHS in Cape Coast
q_i₁ > q_i₂ > . . . > q_iN	0.119	0.176	0.129	0.172	0.212
q_i₁ ≥ q_i₂ ≥ . . . ≥ q_iN	0.194	0.281	0.204	0.286	0.323
q_i1 = max(q_i) and q_iN = min(q_i)	0.373	0.503	0.362	0.499	0.602
q_i1 ≥ q_iN	0.898	0.954	0.934	0.952	0.972
SD of school selectivity	0.752	0.845	0.789	0.835	0.898
Selectivity of first choice school	0.955	1.429	0.897	1.419	1.797
N	8,944	4,185	859	2,026	1,300
Panel C: Rank Ordering by School Selectivity; JHS in Cape Coast and Applied Locally
q_i₁ > q_i₂ > . . . > q_iN	0.231	0.305	0.338	0.284	0.331
q_i₁ ≥ q_i₂ ≥ . . . ≥ q_iN	0.577	0.686	0.718	0.659	0.726
q_i₁ = max(q_i) and q_iN = min(q_i)	0.669	0.769	0.803	0.742	0.806
q_i₁ ≥ q_iN	0.935	0.959	0.972	0.947	0.976
SD of school selectivity	0.678	0.740	0.750	0.738	0.737
Selectivity of first choice school	0.949	1.335	1.020	1.294	1.604
N	797	459	71	264	124