Hearing and justice: The link between hearing impairment in early childhood and youth offending in Aboriginal children living in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia

Table 3 Contribution of individual categories in explaining the variation (Royston R²) of first youth offending guilty in the ‘fixed-effect’ model for NT-born Aboriginal children (1996–2001 birth cohort) in NT remote hearing data and public school attendance data (Year 7)

Model	Royston R²
Model	Boys (n = 754)	Girls (n = 779)
Full model	0.281	0.585
Hearing impairment only	0.032	0.065
Maltreatment report before Year 7 only	0.142	0.239
Enrolled by mother (at Year 7)	0.002	0.254
Year 7 school attendance only	0.079	0.121
Community fixed effect only	0.146	0.365

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