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. 2010 Apr 21;10:199. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-199

Table 1.

Basic distribution of the social variables

girls boys girls & boys

N % N % N %
sex 637 50.4 628 49.6 1265 100
parental education
- high 363 57.0 328 52.2 691 54.6
- medium 140 22.0 157 25.0 297 23.5
- low 112 17.6 128 20.4 240 19.0
- missing value 22 3.5 15 2.4 37 2.9
household income
- high 202 31.7 181 28.8 383 30.2
- medium 126 19.8 118 18.8 244 19.3
- low 68 10.7 67 10.7 135 10.7
- missing value 241 37.8 262 41.7 503 39.8
parental working status
- not unemployed 541 84.9 529 84.2 1070 84.6
- unemployed 77 12.1 82 13.1 159 12.6
- missing value 19 3.0 17 2.7 36 2.8
nationality
- (exclusively) German 471 73.9 440 70.1 911 72.0
- others 165 25.9 183 29.1 348 27.5
- missing value 1 0.16 5 0.8 6 0.5
single parenthood
- others 547 85.9 524 83.4 1071 84.7
- single parent 84 13.2 97 15.5 181 14.3
- missing value 6 0.9 7 1.1 13 1.0