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Table 1 Respondent Characteristics

From: Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): Validated for teenage school students in England and Scotland. A mixed methods assessment

Characteristic

 

N (%)

Gender

Male

808 (49.1)

 

Female

838 (50.1)

 

Missing

4 (0.2)

Age

13 years and under 1

772 (46.8)

 

14 years

204 (12.4)

 

15 years

564 (34.2)

 

16 years and over

107 (6.5)

 

Missing

3 (0.18)

Ethnicity

White

1269 (78.4)

 

Asian or Asian British

220 (13.6)

 

Other

129 (16.0)

 

Missing

32(2.0)

Family Affluence Scale

1-4

499 (30.4)

 

5-7

1139 (69.4)

 

Missing

12 (0.7)

  1. 1 We used whole school year and class groups as our sampling frame. Ages ranged slightly outside year group standards. The majority of respondents (94.3%) was aged 13-16 years. ("13 years and younger" includes 78 twelve year olds. "16 years and over" includes eight over-16s)
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BMC Public Health

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