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. 2017 Aug 22;117(8):1121–1127. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.284

Table 1. School characteristics and girls’ demographic characteristics.

  Intervention arm
Standard invitation arm
School characteristics (n=6)
Single sex n (%) 0 (0.0) 1 (33.3)
School religion n (%)        
 Christian 1 (33.3) 1 (33.3)
 None 2 (66.7) 2 (66.7)
Girls’ demographics (n=575)
Ethnicitya n (%)        
 White British 29 (49.2) 10 (28.6)
 African 9 (15.3) 12 (34.3)
 White Other 5 (8.5) 1 (2.9)
 Other 16 (27.1) 12 (34.3)
 Missing n 197 285
Religionb n (%)        
 None 65 (33.0) 5 (2.6)
 Christian 101 (51.3) 158 (83.2)
 Muslim 22 (11.2) 17 (9.0)
 Other 9 (4.6) 10 (5.3)
 Missing n 58 130
Religiosityb Mean (s.d.) range 1–7 3.8 (2.2) 4.9 (1.5)
IMD quintilec,d n (%)        
 Most deprived: 1 150 (58.8) 230 (71.9)
 2 43 (16.9) 64 (20.0)
 3 28 (11.0) 18 (5.6)
 4 14 (5.5) 7 (2.2)
 Least deprived: 5 20 (7.8) 1 (0.3)
 Missing n 0 0
Migration statusb n (%)        
 Girl born UK, parents born UK 52 (29.1) 31 (17.4)
 Girl born UK, 1 parent born UK 23 (12.9) 17 (9.6)
 Girl born UK, neither parent born UK 86 (48.0) 102 (57.3)
 Girl not born UK, neither parent born UK 16 (8.9) 28 (15.7)
 Girl not born UK, 1 parent born UK 1 (0.6) 0 (0.0)
 Girl not born UK, parents born UK 1 (0.6) 0 (0.0)
 Missing n 76 142
a

Data source: Parents’ questionnaire.

b

Data source: Girls’ questionnaire.

c

Data source: Collected from schools.

d

Quintile for the whole of the United Kingdom.