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Table 1 Gender, age and socioeconomic position characteristics 1

From: Social inequalities in changes in health-related behaviour among Slovak adolescents aged between 15 and 19: A longitudinal study

  

Measurement point

 
  

T1 % (N)

T2 drop-out % (N)

T2 participants % (N)

Cohen's w 2

Total

 

100 (1850)

100 (1006)

100 (844)

 

Gender

Males

48.6 (899)

53.5 (583)

42.8 (361)

0.107

 

Females

51.4 (951)

46.5 (468)

57.2 (483)

 

Age

Mean (SD)

14.9 (0.62)

18.8 (0.55)

18.8 (0.55)

 

Respondents' education level

Grammar

23.8 (440)

19.1 (193)

29.3 (247)

0.224

 

Specialised secondary

43.4 (802)

41.7 (420)

45.3 (382)

 
 

Apprentice

32.7 (608)

39.1 (393)

25.5 (215)

 

Current employment status

Student

n.a.

n.a.

66.3 (558)

n.a.

 

Employed

n.a.

n.a.

12.6 (106)

 
 

Unemployed

n.a.

n.a.

21.1 (178)

 

Parents' highest occupational level

High

29.8 (538)

29.0 (283)

30.8 (255)

0.052

 

Medium

36.2 (653)

34.8 (339)

37.9 (314)

 
 

Low

33.9 (612)

36.2 (353)

31.3 (259)

 

Parents' highest education level

High

26.0 (477)

25.7 (255)

26.4 (222)

0.042

 

Medium

49.7 (910)

48.3 (479)

51.2 (431)

 
 

Low

24.3 (445)

25.9 (257)

22.4 (188)

 
  1. 1 Due to rounding, not all percentages add up to 100%
  2. 2 Cohen's w is a measure of the strength of the effect of a characteristic on the outcome. It is independent from sample size, and is expressed as effect size (ES). It could be interpreted as follows: if w < 0.1 the effect is trivial, if w ranges from 0.1 to 0.3 the effect is small, if w ranges from 0.3 to 0.5 the effect is moderate and if w > 0.5 the effect is large.
  3. 3 ES – Effect size,
  4. n.a. – not available
  5. T1 – baseline measurement
  6. T2 – follow up