Table 2. Participant characteristics and household environments overall and for children with developmentally on-track data.
Participants’ characteristics | Totaln=6557 (100%) | Developmentally on trackn=5328 (81.3%) | P value* | ||
n | % (column) | n | % (row) | ||
Age (months) | 0.61 | ||||
24–35 | 2148 | 32.7 | 1739 | 80.9 | |
36–47 | 2191 | 33.4 | 1758 | 80.3 | |
48–59 | 2218 | 33.9 | 1832 | 82.6 | |
Sex | <0.001 | ||||
Boy | 3562 | 54.3 | 2788 | 78.3 | |
Girl | 2995 | 45.7 | 2540 | 84.8 | |
Region | <0.001 | ||||
Bangkok | 538 | 8.2 | 482 | 89.5 | |
Central | 1706 | 26.0 | 1416 | 83.0 | |
North | 1161 | 17.7 | 877 | 75.5 | |
Northeast | 2029 | 31.0 | 1602 | 79.0 | |
South | 1124 | 17.1 | 951 | 84.7 | |
Residency | 0.03 | ||||
Urban | 2631 | 40.1 | 2207 | 83.9 | |
Rural | 3926 | 59.9 | 3122 | 79.5 | |
Maternal education | <0.001 | ||||
Below secondary education | 2055 | 31.3 | 1538 | 74.9 | |
Secondary education | 2722 | 41.5 | 2214 | 81.3 | |
Above secondary education | 1780 | 27.2 | 1576 | 88.5 | |
Household wealth (quintile) | 0.002 | ||||
1 | 1415 | 21.6 | 1104 | 78.0 | |
2 | 1314 | 20.0 | 1022 | 77.7 | |
3 | 1323 | 20.2 | 1084 | 82.0 | |
4 | 1433 | 21.8 | 1171 | 81.7 | |
5 | 1073 | 16.4 | 948 | 88.4 | |
Living arrangements | 0.06 | ||||
Living with neither mother nor father | 1427 | 21.8 | 1094 | 76.7 | |
Living with either mother or father | 1426 | 21.8 | 1188 | 83.3 | |
Living with both mother and father | 3704 | 56.4 | 3047 | 82.3 | |
Language used at home | 0.24 | ||||
Thai | 5942 | 90.6 | 4845 | 81.5 | |
Non-Thai | 615 | 9.4 | 483 | 78.6 | |
Number of books at home | <0.001 | ||||
<3 | 3562 | 54.3 | 2729 | 76.6 | |
3–9 | 2197 | 33.5 | 1868 | 85.0 | |
≥10 | 798 | 12.2 | 731 | 91.6 | |
Screen time duration (hour/day) | <0.001 | ||||
0 | 2704 | 41.2 | 2066 | 76.4 | |
≥1 | 3853 | 58.8 | 3262 | 84.7 |
P-value in bold indicates statistical significance.
Bivariate association between categorical variables and developmentally on track was examined via χ2 analyses (p<0.05=statistical significance).