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. 2023 Aug 25;42:e2022196. doi: 10.1590/1984-0462/2024/42/2022196

Table 3. Association between scores in the domains of school readiness and caregiver's characteristics and socioeconomic conditions.

		Average (min-max)	Overall score		Motor		Emergent literacy		Emergent numeracy		Socio-emotaional		Executive functions
		Average (min-max)	CC	p-value	CC	p-value	CC	p-value	CC	p-value	CC	p-value	CC	p-value
Caregiver's age (years)		35 (20–71)	-0.014	0.765^*	-0.002	0.962^*	-0.024	0.608^*	0.011	0.823^*	-0.006	0.906^*	0.002	0.971^*
		N	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)	p-value	Mean (SD)	p-value
Maternal education
	Until 9 years	136	75.6 (12.8)	0.303^†	84.2 (16.8)	0.082^†	66.8 (18.8)	0.594^†	78.3 (14.3)	0.069^†	77.6 (15.3)	0.977^†	67.5 (25.7)^‡	0.002^†
	Until 12 years	250	76.1 (14.2)		80.7 (20.2)		67.3 (19.4)		79.8 (14.6)		77.0 (16.6)		74.4 (25.3)^‡
	>12 years	56	79.0 (10.5)		87.4 (14.7)		70.3 (18.8)		83.9 (9.6)		76.5 (18.5)		78.1 (27.8)^‡
Marital status
	With partner	280	76.0 (14.2)	0.721^§	82.4 (18.8)	0.678^§	67.5 (19.9)	0.921^§	79.4(15.3)	0.940^§	76.1 (17.7)	0.192^§	73.0 (26.9)	0.443^§
	No partner	161	76.9 (11.9)	0.721^§	83.0 (18.6)	0.678^§	67.5 (18.0)	0.921^§	80.7 (11.7)	0.940^§	79.1 (14.1)	0.192^§	72.4 (24.5)	0.443^§
Economic class
	A/B	50	77.6 (11.2)	0.188^†	84.2 (15.9)	0.908^†	70.1 (17.3)	0.143^†	82.9 (11.0)	0.119^†	74.8 (17.9)	0.203^†	75.5 (25.0)	0.406^†
	C	337	76.7 (13.6)		82.2 (19.2)		67.9 (19.6)		79.9 (14.1)		77.9 (16.4)		73.1 (25.7)
	D/E	55	73.4 (13.9)		83.6 (17.9)		63.2 (17.9)		76.8 (15.8)		75.2 (15.7)		68.2 (28.6)

CC: correlation coefficient; SD: standard deviation.

^*

Spearman's correlation;

^†

Kruskal-Wallis test;

^‡

different letters denote statistically significant differences;

^§

Mann-Whitney test,