Table 1.
The sociodemographic characteristics of the sample.
| AYCs (n = 240) % (n) |
Non-Carers (n = 631) % (n) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Gender | ||
| Female | 80.8% (193) | 62.7% (391) |
| Male | 18.8% (45) | 36.1% (225) |
| Transgender | 0% (0) | 0.3% (2) |
| Other | 0.4% (1) | 0.6% (4) |
| Age | ||
| 15 | 8.3% (20) | 7% (44) |
| 16 | 33.3% (80) | 35.8% (226) |
| 17 | 58.3% (140) | 57.2% (361) |
| Type of settlement | ||
| Big city | 5.1% (7) | 6.8% (30) |
| Suburb of a big city | 11% (15) | 14.4% (64) |
| Small city | 24.3% (33) | 31.8% (141) |
| Village in the countryside | 56.6% (77) | 43.8% (194) |
| Farm/house in the countryside | 2.9% (4) | 3.2% (14) |
| Nationality | ||
| Swiss | 75% (180) | 73.7% (465) |
| German | 10% (24) | 7.4% (47) |
| Italian | 11.7% (28) | 9.8% (62) |
| French | 1.3% (3) | 1.6% (10) |
| Portuguese | 1.7% (4) | 1.6% (10) |
| Kosovan | 4.6% (11) | 7.8% (49) |
| Spanish | 2.9% (7) | 1.6% (10) |
| Serbian | 2.9% (7) | 2.9% (18) |
| Turkish | 1.7% (4) | 4% (25) |
| Other | 24.2% (58) | 21.7% (137) |
| Whom they live with | ||
| Mother | 93.8% (225) | 95.7% (604) |
| Father | 68.3% (164) | 81.8% (516) |
| New partner of the mother/father | 7.1% (17) | 7.4% (47) |
| Siblings | 63.7% (153) | 57.2% (361) |
| Grandmother | 3.8% (9) | 3.6% (23) |
| Grandfather | 2.5% (6) | 2.5% (16) |
| Others | 5.1% (12) | 4.6% (29) |
(n) Unweighted number of cases. The total can differ from n = 240 or n = 631 due to missing values. Percentages do not always add up to exactly 100% because of missing values. For nationality and persons the AYCs lived with, the percentages added up to more than 100% because multiple answers were possible.