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. 2016 Apr 26;114(9):1060–1068. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2016.62

Table 4. Level of education of survivors compared with the French population of the same age, same gender, adjusted on paternal occupation.

  All diagnoses
  All but CNS tumour and leukaemia survivors
  CNS tumour and leukaemia survivors
 
  Observed Expected     Observed Expected     Observed Expected    
  (O) (E) O/E   (O) (E) O/E   (O) (E) O/E  
Outcome N (%) N (%) (95% CI) P-valuea N (%) N (%) (95% CI) P-valuea N (%) N (%) (95% CI) P-valuea
Educational levelb       <0.001       <0.001       <0.001
<Middle school 161 (9.8) 271 16.5) 0.6 (0.5–0.7) c 99 (7.1) 234 (16.8) 0.4 (0.3–0.5) c 62 (24.9) 37 (14.9) 1.7 (1.3–2.2) c
Middle school 103 (6.3) 133 (8.1) 0.8 (0.6–0.9) d 70 (5.0) 114 (8.2) 0.6 (0.5–0.8) c 33 (13.3) 18 (7.4) 1.8 (1.3–2.6) c
Vocational school 416 (25.4) 367 (22.4) 1.1 (1.0–1.3) d 354 (25.4) 315 (22.5) 1.1 (1.0–1.3) d 62 (24.9) 54 (21.5) 1.2 (0.9–1.5)  
High school 268 (16.3) 290 (17.7) 0.9 (0.8–1.0)   238 (17.1) 245 (17.6) 1.0 (0.9–1.1)   30 (12.0) 46 (18.5) 0.7 (0.4–0.9) d
College 693 (42.2) 579 (35.3) 1.2 (1.1–1.3) c 631 (45.3) 486 (34.9) 1.3 (1.2–1.4) c 62 (24.9) 94 (37.7) 0.7 (0.5–0.9) c

Abbreviation: CI=confidence interval; CNS=central nervous system.

a

P-values of χ2-tests comparing observed and expected distributions.

b

Information on level of education of survivors or on paternal occupation was missing for 425 survivors (for 112 survivors of CNS tumour and leukaemia, and for 313 survivors of other diagnoses, respectively).

c

<0.001 P-values of χ2-tests comparing observed and expected proportions for each level of the variable.

d

<0.05 P-values of χ2-tests comparing observed and expected proportions for each level of the variable.