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ArticleScandinavian journal of public health2025

Predictors of non-completion of upper secondary education in Finland based on register data.

Susanna Raisamo, Tytti Pasanen, Petri Hilli, Timo Ståhl

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Article in Scandinavian journal of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Susanna RaisamoKnowledge base for health and welfare management/Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2127-5559
Tytti PasanenKnowledge base for health and welfare management/Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.
Petri HilliQSA Quantitative Solvency Analysts Ltd, Helsinki, Finland.
Timo StåhlKnowledge base for health and welfare management/Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsSchool non-completion is a public health and educational concern in most countries. This study sought to identify the strongest predictors of the non-completion of upper secondary education based on register data.

methodsA cross-validated elastic net regression analysis was used to predict school non-completion in a population of 2696 students in the city of Jyväskylä, Finland. The register data included data from the primary social and healthcare register and the educational register.

resultsThe non-completion rate was 13.1% (13.4% for males, 12.8% for females). The non-completion of upper secondary education was best predicted by the following seven features (ordered from strongest to weakest): unauthorized absences (odds ratio (OR) = 2.27), out-of-home placement (OR = 2.23), average grade when leaving lower secondary education (OR = 0.73), an anxiety/depression diagnosis (OR = 1.43), visits to child guidance and family counselling centres (OR = 1.17), family poverty (OR = 1.11) and the grade point average in the 5th Grade (OR = 0.95).

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SchoolsStudentsAdolescentChildEducational StatusFemaleFinlandHumansMaleRegistriesPredictorsregister dataschool non-completionupper secondary school

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PMID39126218
PMCPMC12598058

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