Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents according to type of work in the Palestinian HBSC-2006 study.

Type of work	Gender		Grade				School ownership			Region		FAS
	Boys	Girls	6 G	8 G	10 G	12 G	Gov.	UNRWA	Private	West Bank	Gaza Strip	FAS 1 (low)	FAS 2 (moderate)	FAS 3 (high)
Agricultural production
%	22.9*	14.2	21.0*	17.8	19.9	21.0*	20.5*	15.7	19.8	21.0*	18.3	18.1	21.2	23.3*
n	966	317	365	307	321	290	1076	129	78	781	502	714	317	163
Retail trade
%	46.0	61.5*	49.3	52.7	53.7*	50.1	51.3	54.4*	47.3	48.9	54.9*	53.8*	49.1	47.9
n	1948	1377	857	908	868	69.2	2691	448	186	1818	1507	2120	732	336
Street traders
%	7.3*	5.7	7.1	8.9*	5.0	5.7	6.8	7.2*	5.6	6.7	6.9	6.4	6.8*	6.4
n	307	128	123	153	81	78	354	59	22	247	188	254	102	45
Tool maintenance work
%	4.3*	2.0	4.1*	3.3	2.9	3.8	3.5	3.8*	3.8*	3.4	3.6*	3.0	4.6*	3.3
n	182	45	72	56	47	52	181	31	15	127	100	119	69	23
Cleaners
%	3.3*	2.9	4.8*	3.2	2.2	2.2	2.9	5.0*	3.3	2.9	3.6*	2.7	4.0*	2.7
n	138	66	84	55	35	30	150	41	13	106	98	107	59	19
Movement of goods
%	3.7*	1.2	2.9	2.4	3.7*	2.4	2.8	2.7	4.3*	2.7	3.0*	2.8	3.4*	2.7
n	158	27	51	41	60	33	146	22	17	102	83	111	50	19
Building construction/maintenance
%	3.4*	1.0	2.1	2.0	3.3*	3.0	2.4	2.3	5.1*	3.1*	1.9	2.3	2.7	3.6*
n	145	22	36	35	54	42	128	19	20	116	51	91	41	25
Workshops like carpenting, mechanics, aluminum
%	2.0*	0.7	1.0	1.9*	1.5	1.9*	1.5	1.2	3.3*	1.9*	1.1	1.4	1.7*	1.7*
n	84	16	17	32	25	26	77	10	13	70	30	55	25	12
House work
%	6.9	10.8*	7.8	7.8	7.7	9.9*	8.4*	7.8	7.4	9.3*	6.7	9.3*	6.5	7.7
n	290	242	135	135	125	137	439	64	29	347	185	367	97	54

n: sample size; P value of chi-square test.

*Significant at P < 0.05.