RELIGION AND SCHOOLING SUCCESS AT THE MUNICIPAL SCHOOL SYSTEM OF RIO DE JANEIRO

The paper presents research results about the relation between family belonging to a religious group and the schooling success or failure revealed by student age-grade discrepancy. We have analyzed information from the official register of the students who attended the municipal elementary school system of Rio de Janeiro, filled by parents during their enrollment in the system in 2011. We have used a logistic regression model to investigate to what extent the effect of belonging to a certain religious group influences the possibilities for the student to be belated. The results indicated a statistically significant association between family religion and the schooling discrepancy. We have discussed as well other characteristics and family practices, correlated to the belonging to a certain religious denomination that might promote a successful schooling.

Keywords:
Religion; Family; Schooling success; Age-grade discrepancy

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Cynthia Paes de Carvalho
24 The choice to investigate this relation based on the students’ age-grade gap was made due to the impossibility to establish a communication between INEP’s database and the students’ registration base (Municipal Department of Education), due to the absence of a common identification code, as Alves and Soares (2013) had already pointed out.

Maria Elizabete Neves Ramos
3 Doctor in Education at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Assistant Professor II at the Post-Graduate Program in Education of PUC-Rio. Coordinator of the research group GESQ - Management and Quality of Education/PUC-Rio. E-mail: <cynthiapaesdecarvalho@puc-rio.br>.

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Doctor in Education at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Assistant Professor II at the Post-Graduate Program in Education of PUC-Rio. Coordinator of the research group GESQ - Management and Quality of Education/PUC-Rio. E-mail: <cynthiapaesdecarvalho@puc-rio.br>.

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CHART 1
- Description of variables used in logistic regression analysis

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TABLE 1
- Religions in Brazil from 1940 to 2010, in percentage¹ 14 Data in Table 1, up to the year 2000, were obtained from Pierucci’s work (PIERRUCI, 2004), complemented by the authors with information from IBGE’s 2010 Demographic Census (IBGE, 2012), excluding those cases in which the religion was not specified or identified.

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TABLE 2
- Distribution of regular elementary school students in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system, as per the family’s denomination statement at the registration on the system

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TABLE 3
- Distribution of regular elementary school students in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system, as per the family’s denomination⁹ 22 As previously mentioned, during this initial data description stage, we chose to record mission or traditional evangelicals separately from other evangelical denominations (pentecostal and others). statement at the registration on the system

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TABLE 4
- Regular elementary school students in Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, with or without academic gap, according to their belonging to religious groups, as stated by their families

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TABLE 5
- Regular elementary school students in Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, with or without academic gap, according to their family arrangement

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TABLE 6
- Religion declared by regular elementary school students at the Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, and their respective family arrangement types

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TABLE 7
- Logistic regression result

CHART 1 - Description of variables used in logistic regression analysis

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 1 - Religions in Brazil from 1940 to 2010, in percentage¹ 14 Data in Table 1, up to the year 2000, were obtained from Pierucci’s work (PIERRUCI, 2004), complemented by the authors with information from IBGE’s 2010 Demographic Census (IBGE, 2012), excluding those cases in which the religion was not specified or identified.

Source: Prepared by the authors, based on IBGE’s Demographic Census (1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000, 2010)IBGE. Censo Demográfico 2010. Rio de Janeiro, v. 1, 2012. Disponível em: <Disponível em: http://www.biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/periodicos/94/cd_2010_religiao_deficiencia.pdf >. Acesso em: 10 fev. 2016.
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TABLE 2 - Distribution of regular elementary school students in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system, as per the family’s denomination statement at the registration on the system

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 3 - Distribution of regular elementary school students in the Rio de Janeiro municipal system, as per the family’s denomination⁹ 22 As previously mentioned, during this initial data description stage, we chose to record mission or traditional evangelicals separately from other evangelical denominations (pentecostal and others). statement at the registration on the system

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 4 - Regular elementary school students in Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, with or without academic gap, according to their belonging to religious groups, as stated by their families

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 5 - Regular elementary school students in Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, with or without academic gap, according to their family arrangement

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 6 - Religion declared by regular elementary school students at the Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, and their respective family arrangement types

Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 from the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

TABLE 7 - Logistic regression result

^*All results have proven to be relevant to all significance levels (α < 0.05) Source: Prepared by the authors based on information from the enrollment database during the year 2011 of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Department.

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Doctor in Education at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Assistant Professor II at the Post-Graduate Program in Education of PUC-Rio. Coordinator of the research group GESQ - Management and Quality of Education/PUC-Rio. E-mail: <cynthiapaesdecarvalho@puc-rio.br>.