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Table 1 Gender- and multicultural status-specific numbers and percentages of study subjects according to school grade and socioeconomic position indicators in the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, 2011–2014

From: Associations of multicultural status with depressive mood and suicidality among Korean adolescents: the roles of parental country of birth and socioeconomic position

 

Boys

Girls

Non-multicultural

Multi-cultural

P-value

Non-multicultural

Multi-cultural

P-value

n (%)

n (%)

 

n (%)

n (%)

 

Total

147848 (100.0)

1371 (100.0)

 

143809 (100.0)

1296 (100.0)

 

School grades

 Middle school, 1st grade

25106 (17.0)

295 (21.5)

<.0001

23272 (16.2)

277 (21.4)

<.0001

 Middle school, 2nd grade

25095 (17.0)

304 (22.2)

 

23982 (16.7)

294 (22.7)

 

 Middle school, 3rd grade

25253 (17.1)

264 (19.3)

 

24060 (16.7)

255 (19.7)

 

 High school, 1st grade

24935 (16.9)

203 (14.8)

 

23546 (16.4)

188 (14.5)

 

 High school, 2nd grade

23604 (16.0)

175 (12.8)

 

24900 (17.3)

161 (12.4)

 

 High school, 3rd grade

23855 (16.1)

130 (9.5)

 

24049 (16.7)

121 (9.3)

 

Urbanity

 Metropolitan cities

67413 (45.6)

478 (34.9)

<.0001

64482 (44.8)

419 (32.3)

<.0001

 Small and medium cities

63212 (42.8)

565 (41.2)

 

64149 (44.6)

556 (42.9)

 

 Rural areas

17223 (11.6)

328 (23.9)

 

15178 (10.6)

321 (24.8)

 

Father’s education

 College

65876 (44.6)

319 (23.3)

<.0001

63406 (44.1)

276 (21.3)

<.0001

 High school

46996 (31.8)

406 (29.6)

 

49667 (34.5)

411 (31.7)

 

 Middle school

5794 (3.9)

251 (18.3)

 

5578 (3.9)

240 (18.5)

 

 Do not know

22698 (15.4)

323 (23.6)

 

18997 (13.2)

286 (22.1)

 

 No father

6484 (4.4)

72 (5.3)

 

6161 (4.3)

83 (6.4)

 

Mother’s education

 College

53414 (36.1)

390 (28.4)

<.0001

50462 (35.1)

429 (33.1)

<.0001

 High school

58645 (39.7)

408 (29.8)

 

65331 (45.4)

443 (34.2)

 

 Middle school

5361 (3.6)

133 (9.7)

 

5735 (4.0)

114 (8.8)

 

 Do not know

23640 (16.0)

379 (27.6)

 

17033 (11.8)

275 (21.2)

 

 No mother

6788 (4.6)

61 (4.4)

 

5248 (3.6)

34 (2.6)

 

Perceived household economic status

 High

13063 (8.8)

148 (10.8)

<.0001

7105 (4.9)

78 (6.0)

<.0001

 Mid-high

37644 (25.5)

201 (14.7)

 

32990 (22.9)

176 (13.6)

 

 Middle

66836 (45.2)

561 (40.9)

 

72186 (50.2)

597 (46.1)

 

 Mid-low

23086 (15.6)

309 (22.5)

 

25202 (17.5)

324 (25.0)

 

 Low

7219 (4.9)

152 (11.1)

 

6326 (4.4)

121 (9.3)

 

Self-reported educational performance

 High

18517 (12.5)

183 (13.3)

<.0001

14209 (9.9)

115 (8.9)

<.0001

 Mid-high

34669 (23.4)

257 (18.7)

 

35625 (24.8)

231 (17.8)

 

 Middle

39468 (26.7)

317 (23.1)

 

40410 (28.1)

344 (26.5)

 

 Mid-low

35978 (24.3)

366 (26.7)

 

36964 (25.7)

379 (29.2)

 

 Low

19216 (13.0)

248 (18.1)

 

16601 (11.5)

227 (17.5)

 

Cohabitation with parents

 Lives with both parents

122454 (82.8)

1000 (72.9)

<.0001

119063 (82.8)

996 (76.9)

<.0001

 Lives with only mother

12817 (8.7)

151 (11.0)

 

14064 (9.8)

161 (12.4)

 

 Lives with only father

7543 (5.1)

101 (7.4)

 

6338 (4.4)

68 (5.2)

 

 Lives with no parents

5034 (3.4)

119 (8.7)

 

4344 (3.0)

71 (5.5)

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