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Table 5 Characteristics of participants and refusals in the KIDSCREEN study.

From: Methods and representativeness of a European survey in children and adolescents: the KIDSCREEN study

Countriesa and variables

Participantsb

Refusalsc

p

Phone & mail

n

(%)

n

(%)

 

AT Austria

1544

 

334

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

98.8

 

83.1

<0.001

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

95.5

 

82.9

<0.001

Parent's marital status: married

 

87.7

 

64.3

<0.001

Parent's educational level: high

 

14.9

 

33.8

<0.001

medium

 

74.5

 

63.5

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

18.9

 

18.2

0.815

CH Switzerland

1746

 

496

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

99.0

 

98.0

0.099

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

95.4

 

90.5

0.000

Parent's marital status: married

 

85.2

 

85.8

0.733

Parent's educational level: high

 

22.1

 

6.0

<0.001

medium

 

66.1

 

50.2

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

16.5

 

12.1

0.020

DE Germany

1775

 

367

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

97.4

 

98.1

0.580

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

90.3

 

90.1

0.922

Parent's marital status: married

 

84.2

 

74.9

<0.001

Parent's educational level: high

 

19.1

 

29.3

 

medium

 

58.7

 

65.9

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

22.8

 

41.6

<0.001

ES Spain

912

 

360

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

98.2

 

96.7

0.092

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

91.3

 

82.9

<0.001

Parent's marital status: married

 

90.6

 

89.8

0.646

Parent's educational level: high

 

25.7

 

20.1

0.114

medium

 

20.0

 

20.7

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

29.0

 

49.4

<0.001

FR France

1079

 

341

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

97.5

 

84.8

<0.001

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

94.1

 

82.2

<0.001

Parent's marital status: married

 

85.7

 

75.4

<0.001

Parent's educational level: high

 

45.4

 

22.0

<0.001

medium

     

Home in big city or suburbs

 

37.5

 

43.2

0.072

NL Netherlands

1919

 

260

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

96.8

 

95.0

0.142

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

90.4

 

93.8

0.085

Parent's marital status: married

 

89.8

 

90.4

0.824

Parent's educational level: high

 

24.3

 

1.4

<0.001

medium

 

56.0

 

41.0

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

46.7

 

49.2

0.465

Other

     

PL Poland

1715

 

366

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

94.3

 

91.2

0.039

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

78.7

 

80.1

0.615

Parent's marital status: married

 

88.0

 

90.3

0.235

Mother's educational level: high

 

18.8

 

17.1

<0.001

medium

 

49.1

 

25.1

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

40.8

 

44.1

0.257

CZ Czech Republic

1603

 

344

  

Child's health: good, very good or excellent

 

94.9

 

89.5

<0.001

Parent's health: good, very good or excellent

 

88.6

   

Parent's marital status: married

 

84.0

 

63.7

<0.001

Parent's educational level: high

 

23.1

 

19.5

<0.001

medium

 

73.8

 

67.7

 

Home in big city or suburbs

 

21.3

 

23.0

0.516

  1. aData not available for EL, HU, IE, and UK;b'Participants' refer to the parent-child pair, i.e. when a parent agreed to participate and survey materials were completed by a parent; c 'Refusals' were the parents who were not willing to participate, but answered a short interview on non-response.