Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of parental information for the period 2004–2012

Personal characteristics	Mean (SD)	Health status	Mean (SD)
Father’s age	45.038 (9.05)	Parental consumption of medicines	0.412 (0.84)
Mother’s age	43.070 (8.79)	Father’s co-morbidity episodes	2.843 (2.05)
Parents are separated or divorced	0.046 (0.21)	Mother’s co-morbidity episodes	3.661 (2.40)
Father deceased	0.012 (0.11)	Father’s Charlson index	0.202 (0.60)
Mother deceased	0.004 (0.06)	Mother’s Charlson index	0.160 (0.50)
Father’s schooling years	9.819 (4.03)	Father’s mental problems	0.057 (0.23)
Mother’s schooling years	9.988 (4.14)	Mother’s mental problems	0.135 (0.34)
Maternal employment	0.669 (0.47)
Health-care use	Mean (SD)	Lifestyle behaviour	Mean (SD)
Father’s visits to GP	8.188 (8.38)
Mother’s visits to GP	10.261 (9.19)	Father’s average BMI	27.693 (4.25)
Father’s hospitalization days	0.500 (2.24)	Mother’s average BMI	26.253 (5.37)
Mother’s hospitalization days	0.318 (1.50)	Father smoker	0.275 (0.45)
Father’s urgent visits	0.670 (0.98)	Mother smoker	0.236 (0.42)
Mother’s urgent visits	0.667 (0.98)	Father’s alcoholism	0.027 (0.16)
Father’s visits to specialist	3.235 (4.42)	Mother’s alcoholism	0.004 (0.06)
Mother’s visits to specialist	3.486 (4.92)

Average values and standard deviations in brackets are reported. Descriptive statistics are reported for the whole considered period. Time distances (in minutes) were computed accounting for parents’ residence and GP or hospital location by means of geocode and traveltime commands in Stata

Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics for children’s parents in terms of the personal characteristics, health status, health-care use, and lifestyle behaviour