Hello!

Quick question, and very simple to answer.

I am wanting to look at whether or not participation in an early childhood education program will effect later school readiness. I will have two dummy variables: participation and non-participation. Since I want to the regression coefficient (or b) to be participation, how should I code my variables so that is what is being looked at in my regression?

Eg:
-Participation = 1, non-participation=0
OR
-participation=0, non-participation=1

Thank you for the clarification, I'm just all turned around and cant seem to figure it out.

Paige