Table 3.

Prevalence of variables regarding parents of children included in the MAPEC_LIFE cohort

	BS	LE	PG	PI	TO	mean	P-valuea
Born in Italy (%)
Mother	83.4	92.4	87.2	77.4	82.2	84.7	<0.001
Father	86.6	95.7	90.6	82.9	84.1	88.1	<0.001
High-school education or greater (%)
Mother	78.4	85.1	91.1	85.0	79.3	83.7	<0,001
Father	68.8	78.2	85.0	72.8	76.4	76.2	<0,001
Employment rate (%)
Mother	76.0	61.6	77.4	74.6	77.5	73.3	<0.001
Father	93.9	83.8	91.8	86.0	90.1	89.2	0.002
Smoking habits (%)
Mother	16.6	20.2	13.2	20.5	26.0	19.2	<0.001
Father	22.1	28.6	20.6	30.4	36.6	27.5	<0.001
Smoking parents (%)
Both	8.7	12.0	6.5	11.6	20.5	11.8	<0.001
One only	21.4	24.9	20.9	28.0	21.6	23.3	0.058
Neither	69.9	63.1	72.7	60.4	57.9	65.0	<0.001

^asignificance level by chi-squared test among frequencies in the various cities