Modelling the Transition Process from Higher Education to Employment: The Case of Undergraduates from Debre Markos University

Table 2

Results of fitting the Cox pH model and the Weibull AFT model for graduates 2019.

Variables	Cox pH ( =1148)	Weibull AFT ( =1148)
	HR (95% CI)	TR (95% CI)
Age	0.970 (0.916, 1.027)	1.016 (0.983, 1.050)
College (reference: agriculture)
Burie Campus	2.720 (1.735, 4.264)	0.561 (0.432, 0.729)
BE	1.916 (1.122, 3.010)	0.696 (0.536, 0.905)
Health science	2.922 (1.850, 4.614)	0.543 (0.416, 0.708)
IEBS	1.771 (1.031, 3.041)	0.711 (0.519, 0.974)
Law	2.406 (1.330, 4.351)	0.603 (0.427, 0.852)
Medicine	2.254 (1.063, 4.783)	0.627 (0.404, 0.972)
NCS	2.019 (1.257, 3.243)	0.666 (0.505, 0.877)
SSH	1.524 (0.903, 2.571)	0.779 (0.575, 1.056)
Technology	0.951 (0.617, 1.466)	1.039 (0.808, 1.336)
CGPA (reference: 2.00-2.74)
2.75-3.24	1.118 (0.887,1.410)	0.930 (0.813, 1.064)
3.25-3.74	1.571 (1.080, 2.286)	0.762 (0.613, 0.948)
3.75-4.00	1.718 (1.277, 2.310)	0.715 (0.601, 0.850)
Region (reference: Addis Ababa)
Amhara	0.439 (0.317, 0.608)	1.611 (1.333, 1.947)
Oromia	0.477 (0.331, 0.687)	1.535 (1.242, 1.898)
SNNP	0.533 (0.373, 0.760)	1.430 (1.163, 1.757)
Tigray	0.491 (0.244, 0.986)	1.503 (1.003, 2.255)
Other	0.536 (0.295, 0.973)	1.416 (1.001, 2.002)
Father education (reference: not educated)
Primary education	1.070 (0.857, 1.336)	0.958 (0.842, 1.090)
Secondary and above	1.305 (1.037, 1.643)	0.857 (0.750, 0.980)
Preferred field (reference: yes)
No	1.175 (0.893, 1.546)	0.923 (0.787, 1.082)
Public advertisement (reference: no)
Yes	0.773 (0.630, 0.949)	1.157 (1.027, 1.304)
Through relation (reference: no)
Yes	0.813 (0.642, 1.029)	1.127 (0.982, 1.293)
Own business (reference: no)
Yes	2.128 (1.374, 3.295)	0.652 (0.505, 0.842)
The internship did (reference: yes)
No	0.511 (0.415, 0.629)	1.476 (1.306, 1.669)
Constant		11.106 (4.906, 25.141)
Scale		0.582
Chi2		273.269
Likelihood ratio test	268.9
Wald test	277.8
Score (log-rank) test	305.1

; ; ; HR = hazard ratio; TR = time ratio; CI = confidence interval.