Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants in face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions (FGD); refugees from the Horn of Africa in Melbourne, Australia

	Face-to-face semi-structured interviews		Focus group discussions
	(n 12)		(n 28)
	Parents	Adolescents	Parents		Adolescents
Characteristic	(n 9)	(n 3)	FGD1 (n 10)	FGD2 (n 6)	FGD1 (n 6)	FGD2 (n 6)
Age (years)
Mean	37·3	15·6	36·5	37·5	17	15·5
Range	31–51	14–17	30–52	31–49	16–17	14–17
Gender	7 mothers	2 boys	7 mothers	100 % mothers	100 % girls	100 % boys
	2 fathers	1 girl	3 fathers
Length of stay in Australia (years)	8·7	5·0‡	5·3	8·0	4·8‡	6·2‡
Family type	4 from single-parent families*	2 from single-parent families*	4 from single-parent families*	3 from single-parent families*	0 from single-parent families*	2 from single-parent families*
	5 from nuclear families†	1 from nuclear families†	6 from nuclear families†	3 from nuclear families†	6 from nuclear families†	4 from nuclear families†
Country of origin	3 Sudanese	3 Ethiopian	10 Sudanese	6 Somali	4 Eritreans	6 Somali
	6 Somali				2 Ethiopians

*A single-parent family represents a household where a parent, mainly the primary caregiver, is not living with a spouse or partner and is responsible for most of the day-to-day responsibilities in raising the child or children.

†A nuclear family represents a household consisting of a pair of adults, mainly primary caregivers, and their children living together.

‡Excludes Australian-born children.