Smoking beliefs across genders, a comparative analysis of seven European countries

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Socio-demographic description of the sample according to gender. Silne R, 2016, N = 12,979

	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

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