Comparing three short questionnaires to detect psychosocial dysfunction among primary school children: a randomized method

Table 1 Characteristics of the respondents and non-respondents

		Response %	Non-response %
Child's gender	male	50	49
	female	50	51
Child's mean age		9.7 (± 1.4)	9.7 (± 1.3)
Ethnic background ^#	Dutch	83	56
	non-Dutch	6	11
	unknown	10	33
Family composition ^#	two parents	86	80
	one parent	9	10
	other	5	10
Parental employment	no paid job	3	NA*
	two parents with paid job	53
	one parent with paid job	34
	unknown	9
Parental highest completed education	none or only primary (max. 8 yrs)	3	NA
	lower vocational (max. 12 yrs)	25
	higher vocational (max 16 yrs)	31
	university/higher professional (min. 17 yrs)	35
	unknown	6
CBCL TPS score in clinical range		9
Total		n = 2041

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