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
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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 |