Table 2.

Educational level and ethnicity of counselees in this study and in the general population of the Netherlands

		Counselees in this study		General populationa		p value
		%	n	%	n
Ethnicityb	Dutch native	90.6	368	80.6	13,184,541	0.000*
	Immigrant	9.4	38	19.4	3,173,451
Educational levelc	Low	4	16	8.4	914,000	0.002*
	Intermediate-1	26.3	105	23.9	2,597,000	0.264
	Intermediate-2	33.3	133	41.9	4,551,000	0.001*
	High	36.3	145	25.7	2,790,000	0.000*

*p < 0.05, a two-sided p value is considered significant

^aData from Statistics Netherlands, 2007

^bDutch native = counselee of who both parents are born in the Netherlands; immigrant = counselee of who at least one of the parents born outside the Netherlands

^cLow = (pre-)primary education or first stage of basic education; intermediate-1 = lower secondary or second stage of basic education; intermediate-2 = (upper) secondary education; high = tertiary education