TABLE 1.
Individual Characteristics of Reduced Study Sample: Youth’07 Survey, New Zealand, 2007
| Characteristic | % (95% CIa) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 52.8 (46.8, 58.8) |
| Female | 47.2 (41.2, 53.2) |
| Age, y | |
| 13 | 20.2 (18.2, 22.3) |
| 14 | 23.2 (21.8, 24.7) |
| 15 | 21.4 (20.4, 22.4) |
| 16 | 19.0 (17.9, 20.2) |
| 17 | 16.1 (14.4, 17.9) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Asian | 13.9 (7.9, 19.9) |
| European | 50.3 (44.8, 55.8) |
| Māori | 19.2 (15.4, 22.9) |
| Other | 6.0 (4.8, 7.1) |
| Pacific Islander | 10.6 (6.2, 15.0) |
| Deprivation | |
| Low | 36.4 (29.7, 43.2) |
| Middle levels | 37.7 (34.5, 41.0) |
| High | 25.8 (19.0, 32.7) |
| Locality | |
| Urban | 87.6 (83.1, 92.0) |
| Rural | 12.4 (8.0, 16.9) |
Note. CI = 95% confidence interval. Sample size was n = 6101. Youth'07 survey is a national survey of secondary school students.
a
Accounts for clustering.