TABLE 2.
Participant demographic characteristics.
| UK | Italy | Poland | |
| N | 225 | 61 | 122 |
| Child age (months), M (SD) | 31.3 (8.9) | 35.0 (10.6) | 32.5 (9.7) |
| Child gender, % male | 49.3 | 65.6 | 51.6 |
| N children in home, % | |||
| 1 | 43.6 | 44.3 | 46.7 |
| 2 | 47.6 | 41.0 | 42.6 |
| 3+ | 6.7 | 14.8 | 10.6 |
| Child is first born, % yes | 60.9 | 54.1 | 68.9 |
| Attends day care, % yes | 80.0 | 88.5 | 52.5 |
| Relationship to child, % | |||
| Mother | 96.0 | 93.4 | 98.4 |
| Father | 3.6 | 6.6 | 0.8 |
| Other | 0.4 | 0 | 0.8 |
| Education of Parent 1, % | |||
| No formal education/GCSE- | 5.3 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| level/vocational qualifications | |||
| High-school education | 10.7 | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| Bachelor’s education | 39.4 | 18.0 | 11.5 |
| Higher degree education | 44.4 | 55.7 | 85.2 |
| Education of Parent 2, % | |||
| No formal education/GCSE- | 17.3 | 6.6 | 26.2 |
| level/vocational qualifications | |||
| High-school education | 16.9 | 31.1 | 0.0 |
| Bachelor’s education | 34.7 | 9.8 | 18.9 |
| Higher degree education | 29.3 | 45.9 | 54.9 |
| Ethnicity of child, % | |||
| White | – | – | 97.5 |
| White British | 81.8 | – | – |
| White and Asian | 3.1 | – | – |
| White and Black African | 1.3 | – | – |
| Bangladeshi | 0.4 | – | – |
| Pakistani | 0.43 | – | – |
| Indian | 0.4 | – | – |
| Irish | 0.9 | – | – |
| Chinese | 0.4 | – | – |
| Arab | 0.4 | – | – |
| White –othera | 6.7 | – | – |
| Mixed –otherb | 2.2 | – | – |
| Prefer not to say | 1.8 | – | 0.8 |
| Otherc | – | – | 1.6 |
| Country of Residence, % | |||
| Italy | – | 96.7 | – |
| UK | 95.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 |
| Poland | 0.4 | – | 93.4 |
| Australia | 1.8 | – | – |
| South Africa | – | 1.6 | – |
| Holland | – | – | 1.6 |
| Germany | 0.9 | – | 1.6 |
| Ireland | 0.9 | – | – |
| Norway | – | – | 0.8 |
| Netherlands | – | – | 0.8 |
| Jordan | – | – | 0.8 |
| Mauritius | 0.4 | – | – |
aWhite-Other included Hungarian/Irish/English, European, Australian, French, Russian/Scottish, Slavic, Russian, Polish/English, Latino of European descent, Italian/Turkish Cypriot, German, New Zealand, and European.
bMixed-Other included White/Fijian, English/Colombian, Indian/Chinese, White/African Arab, Portuguese Black, Caribbean, and Asian.
c“Other” included White and Asian.