Non-completion of secondary education and early disability in Norway: geographic patterns, individual and community risks

Table 1 Individual and community characteristics of young receivers and non-receivers of disability pension (DP)

Variable	DP receivers (N = 7065)		Non-receivers (N = 343,634)
	N	%	N	%
Individual level variables
Male	3673	52.0	174,696	50.8
Mean Age (SD)	33.4^b	5.50	30.7	5.92
Secondary education non-completion	5876^a	83.2	110,719	32.2
Birth cohort
1970–1974	3204^a	45.4	94,279	27.4
1975–1979	1798^a	25.5	81,946	23.9
1980–1984	1180^a	16.7	80,537	23.4
1985–1989	883^a	12.5	86,872	25.3
No previous employment records	2615^a	37.0	9191	2,7
Maternal DP	1544^a	21.9	32,551	9.5
Mother’s identity unknown	282^a	4.0	23,570	6.9
Paternal DP	1218^a	17.2	27,781	8.1
Father’s identity unknown	114^a	1.6	18,669	5.4
Neighbourhood level variable
Rural place of residence	1304	18.5	63,435	18.5
Municipality level variables
Socioeconomic variables	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Secondary or tertiary education %	66.0^b	4.64	66.7	4.46
Unemployment %	3.3^b	0.76	3.2	0.71
Social security benefits %	6.1^b	2.07	5.7	1.86
Disability benefits %	9.7^b	2.91	8.7	2.76
Gross household income (thousands)	339.4^b	382.2	349.8	398.5

^aSignificant difference (p-value≤0.05) between groups tested by chi square test ^b Significant mean difference (p-value≤0.05) between groups tested by independent sample t-test

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