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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study population

From: Psychometric evaluation of a Swedish version of Minneapolis-Manchester quality of life-youth form and adolescent form

 

Grade 6

Grade 9

 

n

n

Age

469

478 (missing n = 3)

11 or younger

9 (1.9%)

 

12

440 (93.4%)

 

13

16 (3.4%)

 

14

4 (.9%)

84 (17.5%)

15

 

375 (78%)

16

 

19 (4%)

Gender

467 (missing n = 2)

478 (missing n = 3)

Female

232 (49.5%)

224 (46.6%)

Male

235 (50.1%)

254 (52.8%)

Country of birth

468 (missing n = 1)

479 (missing n = 2)

Sweden

409 (87.2%)

421 (87.5%)

Foreign born

56 (11.9%)

57 (11.9%)

Don’t know

3 (.6%)

1 (.2%)

Parents’s country of birth

455 (missing n = 14)

472 (missing n = 9)

Both parents in Sweden

282 (60.1%)

298 (62%)

One parent born abroad

59 (12.6%)

60 (12.5%)

Both parents born abroad

114 (24.3%)

114 (23.7%)

Siblings

469

478 (missing n = 3)

0

23 (4.9%)

30 (6.2%)

1

192 (40.8%)

202 (42%)

2-3

202 (43.1%)

199 (41.3%)

4 or more

72 (11.1%)

47 (9.7%)