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Ethnic Hostility among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups

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the worsening economic conditions on the isl<strong>and</strong>s. Due to the strong trend towards (self)selective<br />

migration favouring the lower educated we expect that: The educational achievements of fi rst<br />

generation Antillean immigrants of subsequent birth cohorts will have decreased compared to<br />

Antilleans of second generational status.<br />

5.4 DATA AND MEASUREMENTS<br />

We used data from the social position, <strong>and</strong> use of welfare facilities by immigrants surveys (SPVA),<br />

waves 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998 <strong>and</strong> 2002 (Groeneveld & Weyers-Martens, 2003; Martens, 1995,<br />

1999; Martens, Roel<strong>and</strong>t, & Veenman, 1992). The SPVA is a household survey of Turkish, Moroccan,<br />

Surinamese <strong>and</strong> Antilleans ethnic minorities <strong>and</strong> a native Dutch reference group <strong>and</strong> was conducted<br />

in 13 municipalities in the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s – <strong>among</strong> which Amsterdam, Rotterdam <strong>and</strong> The Hague<br />

– in which the majority of the Dutch ethnic minority members live. The SPVA contains to a high<br />

extent a representative selection of members of the respective ethnic minority groups with regard<br />

to age, gender, marital status <strong>and</strong> nationality. The SPVA Dutch control group is not a perfect<br />

representative selection of native Dutch residents with regard to fi nal educational attainment.<br />

Data of the Dutch Labour Force Survey (LFS 1991, 1994, 1998 <strong>and</strong> 2002) were used to reduce this<br />

non-representivity. 2<br />

5. Trends in <strong>Ethnic</strong> Educational Inequality | Data <strong>and</strong> measurements<br />

With regard to the description of the fi nal education levels across ethnic groups, we<br />

followed the usual procedure to restrict the sample to respondents who were aged 25 or above<br />

at the time of the survey. We thereby did not favour young drop-outs <strong>and</strong> students who followed<br />

a short educational track. In the school transition analyses we only selected respondents who<br />

successfully fi nished their previous educational track. In the school transition analyses we included<br />

generational status as an explanatory variable. Since second generation immigrants only became<br />

a part of the Dutch society from the 1960s <strong>and</strong> onwards, we only selected those respondents who<br />

were born after 1959.<br />

Final educational attainment was measured in 8 categories (0) no education, or not<br />

completed elementary school ‘

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