Why companies prefer applicants from non-immigrant families: investigating access to vocational training among low-qualified adolescents with an interlinked firm-applicant survey

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 1 Sample structure: distribution of applicants across firms and vice versa

	Firms applied to per applicant		Applications per firm
	n	% (column)	n	% (column)
1	454	76.2	503	84.4
2	109	18.3	57	9.6
3 to 4	33	5.5	18	3.0
5 to 11	–	–	18	3.0
Total	596	100.0	596	100.0