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Table 3 Health behaviour in the 10 th grade according to non-completion of upper secondary school (n = 10931)

From: Mental health problems in the 10thgrade and non-completion of upper secondary school: the mediating role of grades in a population-based longitudinal study

 

Boys (5511)

Girls (5420)

 

Proportion of population

Non-completion rate percentage

Proportion of population

Non-completion rate percentage

Health behaviour in the 10 th grade

   

Smoking

(n = 5474)

*

(n = 5394)

*

  No

74.2

32.5

66.8

19.0

  Sometimes

12.4

44.4

16.3

25.9

  Yes, every day

13.4

68.9

16.9

52.4

Alcohol last year

(n = 5387)

*

(n = 5337)

*

  Never

26.5

35.7

22.3

23.5

  A few times last year

27.2

30.7

30.2

19.7

  1–3 times a month

32.1

42.1

34.5

28.9

  Once a week or more

14.2

52.2

13.1

35.2

Physical activity

(n = 5390)

*

(n = 5248)

*

  0 hour per week

10.4

50.5

12.3

37.1

  1–2 hours per week

19.4

45.7

29.6

31.1

  3–4 hours per week

20.8

37.9

27.1

22.1

  5–7 hours per week

23.1

34.0

20.4

16.4

  8 hours or more per week

26.4

32.3

10.7

18.8

  1. * Statistically significant difference between completer and non-completers, p ≤ 0.001.