A comparison of the selection scores (UMAT and each of its components, ATAR and interview score) in those who were finally included versus those who did not, revealed no significant differences in ATAR, the interview score, total UMAT percentile score or percentile score in each of its 3 components.
The second analysis examines whether there are differences in the baseline interview characteristics for those who completed wave 2 and those who did not.
The partial correlation controlled for score on Interview Rating Scale in year 1. * p < 0.05 There were no differences in the relationships between Interview Rating Scale score and confidence and nervousness between the two cohorts.
There are large and statistically significant differences in the rates of interview callbacks received by applicants with Han-, Mongolian-, Uighur-, and Tibetan-sounding names.10 1,389 of our 21,592 candidates received callbacks, yielding a callback rate of 6.43%.
Similarly, if the same interviewer does all interviews in one location first, and then all those in another, systematic differences in the manner of interviewing over time (eg, due to a learning curve) may again yield spuriously different results in the two locations.
For closer information on differences in the distribution of interviews, ethical considerations, collection of data, we would like to refer to the above-mentioned previous study of ours [ 11].
The chi-square test showed that there were significant (P > 0.05) differences in the responses of the interviewed households from the various communities.
Differences in the quality of the interviews were apparent (table 3) but related to pregnancy rather than to virginity, with the exception of needing help with the questionnaire, which was more common among the virgins (30.2%) than the non-virgins (10.8%, P=0.007).
