Prevalence of recurrent psychosomatic symptoms, chronic illness, and low wellbeing among participating children. Percentage of children belonging to families with no parent employed. Percentage of children according to social class, family type, parents’ immigrant status, gender, and age of the child and respondent
| Denmark | Finland | Iceland | Norway | Sweden | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome measures (%) | ||||||
| Recurrent psychosomatic symptoms | 7.6 | 10.1 | 8.6 | 9.3 | 7.2 | 8.5 |
| Chronic illness | 13.5 | 17.5 | 20.1 | 15.4 | 12.9 | 15.7 |
| Low wellbeing | 18.4 | 28.0 | 35.7 | 20.8 | 21.8 | 24.9 |
| Labour market participation | ||||||
| No parent employed (%) | 5.5 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 4.3 |
| Confounding variable | ||||||
| Social class | ||||||
| High | 31.9 | 34.6 | 43.2 | 34.7 | 32.6 | 35.4 |
| Middle | 39.4 | 33.5 | 31.0 | 45.3 | 36.6 | 37.1 |
| Low | 28.7 | 31.9 | 25.8 | 20.0 | 30.8 | 27.5 |
| Family type (%) | ||||||
| Traditional family | 79.9 | 81.7 | 81.5 | 80.1 | 81.1 | 80.9 |
| Single parent family | 12.2 | 14.1 | 11.1 | 13.0 | 12.2 | 12.5 |
| Stepfamily | 7.9 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.6 |
| Parents’ immigrant status (%) | ||||||
| Children of immigrants | 4.2 | 1.2 | Not asked | 2.4 | 9.7 | 3.6 |
| Children of non-immigrants | 95.8 | 98.8 | 100 | 97.6 | 90.3 | 96.4 |
| Gender (%) | ||||||
| Boys | 49.7 | 52.0 | 50.2 | 52.2 | 52.9 | 51.4 |
| Girls | 50.3 | 48.0 | 49.8 | 47.8 | 47.1 | 48.6 |
| Age (y) (%) | ||||||
| 2–6 | 33.7 | 29.6 | 34.9 | 32.8 | 33.3 | 32.9 |
| 7–12 | 36.1 | 38.5 | 37.9 | 37.1 | 37.7 | 37.5 |
| 13–17 | 30.1 | 31.9 | 27.2 | 30.1 | 29.0 | 29.7 |
| Respondent (%) | ||||||
| Mother | 80.3 | 84.9 | 83.5 | 76.9 | 80.6 | 81.3 |
| Father | 12.6 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 17.0 | 13.3 | 12.0 |
| Mother and father or other | 7.1 | 5.9 | 8.4 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.7 |