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Table 5 Convergent and divergent validity of the past and present cultural capital measures in PIAAC-L 2015

From: Measuring cultural capital through the number of books in the household

Variable

Past cultural capital:

Present cultural capital:

Number of books at age 16

Number of books in current household

1

Visiting cultural events

.28 (.25)

.36 (.31)

2

Visiting cultural places

.21 (.18)

.30 (.26)

3

Reading books

.32 (.26)

.45 (.37)

4

Reading the news

.03 (.03)

.19 (.16)

5

Visiting the library

.35 (.29)

.42 (.35)

6

Years in education

.40 (.31)

.33 (.26)

7

Occupational prestige (SIOPS-08)

.30 (.23)

.33 (.25)

8

Literacy skills

.43 (.32)

.37 (.27)

9

Numeracy skills

.34 (.25)

.29 (.22)

  1. Note. N = 3263. Observations vary. Cell values are Spearman’s rho. Kendall’s taub in parentheses. Correlations of pairwise present observations