المحددات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية للقيد في رياض الأطفال بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

There has been mounting evidence that attendance of early childhood education is positively associated with the future live of children, through enhancing their cognitive ability, good behavior, education performance, and health.

however, enrolment ratio in pre-primary education in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been relatively low, less than 17%.

according to previous research, the low enrolment at preprimary education might have been caused by factors such as the economic and social differences between families.

hence, the current study aimed to identify factors that influence attendance of pre-primary education, using data of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in international examinations, namely, PIRLS 2011 and 2016, and TIMSS 2015, with a total of 13585 students.

using the binary logistic regression to regress economic and social variables on whether the child has attended pe primary education, showed that independent variables in general had explained 14%-21% of the variation in the dependent variable.

learning resources at home, mean income, parental attitude toward reading, occupation of mother and father, education of father and mother, and school location were all statistically significant, but child gender was not statistically significant.