Table 2.
Factors associated with the school-level response rate of the 153 Japanese schools that participated in the 2021 Lifestyle Survey of Adolescents.
| Total (N = 153) |
p | Web (n = 106) |
p | Paper (n = 47) |
p | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Response, % | Target | Response, % | Target | Response, % | |||||||
| School type | ||||||||||||
| Public | 125 | 32 | 25.6 | 0.134 | 86 | 15 | 17.4 | 0.519 | 39 | 17 | 43.6 | 0.130 |
| Private | 28 | 3 | 10.7 | 20 | 2 | 10.0 | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | |||
| School size | ||||||||||||
| Small | 50 | 10 | 20.0 | 0.089 | 23 | 2 | 8.7 | 0.449 | 7 | 2 | 28.6 | 0.879 |
| Medium | 51 | 17 | 33.3 | 23 | 5 | 21.7 | 7 | 3 | 42.9 | |||
| Large | 52 | 8 | 15.4 | 18 | 2 | 11.1 | 13 | 4 | 30.8 | |||
| Combined junior and high school | ||||||||||||
| No | 128 | 29 | 22.7 | 1.000 | 87 | 12 | 13.8 | 0.183 | 41 | 17 | 41.5 | 0.384 |
| Yes | 25 | 6 | 24.0 | 19 | 5 | 26.3 | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | |||
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Hokkaido | 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.346 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.157 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.820 |
| Tohoku | 12 | 5 | 41.7 | 8 | 3 | 37.5 | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | |||
| Kanto | 44 | 9 | 20.5 | 31 | 2 | 6.5 | 13 | 7 | 53.8 | |||
| Chubu | 29 | 10 | 34.5 | 19 | 6 | 31.6 | 10 | 4 | 40.0 | |||
| Kinki | 27 | 6 | 22.2 | 19 | 4 | 21.1 | 8 | 2 | 25.0 | |||
| Chugoku | 10 | 2 | 20.0 | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | |||
| Shikoku | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | 33.3 | |||
| Kyushu and Okinawa | 19 | 2 | 10.5 | 14 | 1 | 7.1 | 5 | 1 | 20.0 | |||
| Size of the city in which the school is located | ||||||||||||
| Twenty-one large cities | 37 | 3 | 8.1 | 0.024 | 29 | 1 | 3.4 | 0.060 | 8 | 2 | 25.0 | 0.493 |
| City | 105 | 30 | 28.6 | 71 | 15 | 21.1 | 34 | 15 | 44.1 | |||
| Municipality | 11 | 2 | 18.2 | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 5 | 1 | 20.0 | |||
Note. p-values were calculated by performing Fisher’s exact test.