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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 21.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Public Health. 2009 Sep;54(Suppl 2):199–208. doi: 10.1007/s00038-009-5411-y

Table 1.

Sample size for the study, by gender, country and year – HSBC 1998, 2002, 2006.

1998 2002 2006
Country* Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls
Austria 1294 577 717 1277 643 634 1759 785 974
Belgium 1559 797 762 3411 1658 1753 3030 1562 1468
Canada 2403 1134 1269 1207 528 679 2289 1095 1194
Czech Republic 1181 584 597 1660 806 854 1665 842 823
Denmark 1339 631 708 1369 656 713 1552 762 790
Estonia 587 252 335 1267 619 648 1587 801 786
Finland 1478 727 751 1741 867 874 1685 790 895
France** 1245 592 653 2614 1301 1313 2222 1139 1083
Germany 1524 763 761 1741 842 899 2552 1271 1281
Greece 1283 585 698 1324 643 681 1416 650 766
Greenland 346 174 172 238 100 138 417 207 210
Hungary 560 245 315 1310 498 812 1187 550 637
Ireland 2538 1314 1224 919 345 574 1685 914 771
Israel 920 421 499 1547 697 850 1994 757 1237
Latvia 1130 443 687 1112 481 631 1330 628 702
Lithuania 1401 626 775 1904 981 923 1861 940 921
Norway 1660 842 818 1622 799 823 1534 818 716
Poland 1590 866 724 2127 1022 1105 2287 1092 1195
Portugal 933 374 559 800 378 422 1383 613 770
Russian Federation 1272 597 675 2574 1138 1436 2755 1238 1517
Sweden 1134 599 535 1218 609 609 1526 752 774
Switzerland 1832 918 914 1501 770 731 1500 733 767
UK*** 4719 2274 2445 4077 1982 2095 4999 2492 2507
US 1571 712 859 1625 754 871 1284 649 635
Means 1479 710 769 1674 796 878 1896 920 976
*

See Currie et al., 2004 for national sampling plans18

**

In 1998, France collected data in only 2 regions, whereas in 2002 and 2006, it selected a nationally representative sample.

***

UK includes Wales, Scotland and England