Table 2 Socio-demographic description of the sample according to gender. Silne R, 2016, N = 12,979
From: Smoking beliefs across genders, a comparative analysis of seven European countries
| Gender | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls | Boys | chisq | |||
| % of mean | N | % of mean | N | ||
| Subjective socioeconomic status (mean, /10) | 6.7 | 6293 | 6.8 | 6141 | 39.0** |
| Age (mean) | 14.9 | 6517 | 15.08 | 6452 | 79.3** |
| Migration status (%) | 0.4 | ||||
| Born in another country | 8.4 | 546 | 8.7 | 561 | |
| Born in this country | 91.6 | 5974 | 91.3 | 5898 | |
| Country (%) | 34.4** | ||||
| Belgium | 14.7 | 960 | 15.1 | 977 | |
| Ireland | 16.8 | 1097 | 15.8 | 1018 | |
| Finland | 12.9 | 838 | 13.9 | 897 | |
| Germany | 11.5 | 748 | 11.6 | 749 | |
| Italy | 16.7 | 1090 | 13.6 | 880 | |
| The Netherlands | 13.5 | 877 | 15.2 | 984 | |
| Portugal | 14 | 910 | 14.8 | 954 | |
| Educational level of mother (%) | 40.5** | ||||
| Low | 14.4 | 940 | 13.5 | 871 | |
| Medium | 32.4 | 2112 | 30.9 | 1993 | |
| High | 39.2 | 2556 | 37.9 | 2449 | |
| Other | 0.2 | 14 | 0.1 | 7 | |
| Unknown | 12.6 | 822 | 15.9 | 1024 | |
| Missing | 1.2 | 76 | 1.8 | 115 | |
| Educational level of father (%) | 4.8 | ||||
| Low | 17.9 | 1169 | 17.4 | 1123 | |
| Medium | 28.3 | 1847 | 28.7 | 1856 | |
| High | 35.1 | 2286 | 34.4 | 2223 | |
| Other | 0.1 | 7 | 0.1 | 9 | |
| Unknown | 17.1 | 1116 | 17.5 | 1128 | |
| Missing | 1.5 | 95 | 1.9 | 120 | |
| Parental smoking (%) | 11.5** | ||||
| No parental smoking | 84.7 | 5519 | 86.7 | 5602 | |
| At least one parent smoker | 15.4 | 1001 | 13.3 | 857 | |
| Weekly smoking of students (%) | 0.1 | ||||
| Not weekly smoker | 88.6 | 5778 | 88.8 | 5737 | |
| Weekly smoker | 11.4 | 742 | 11.2 | 722 | |