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Table 5 Risk ratios for putative risk factors by ethnic group

From: Prevalence of conduct problems and social risk factors in ethnically diverse inner-city schools

 

Receives free school meals

Experienced Racial Discrimination

*A few to many or all troublesome friend’s vs none

*Parental High Control

*Parental Low Care

% (95%CI)

% (95%CI)

% (95%CI)

% (95%CI)

% (95%CI)

Overall prevalence in sample

0.24 (0.17–0.30)

0.28 (0.24–0.32)

0.70 (0.66–0.74)

0.47 (0.43–0.52)

0.48 (0.45–0.50)

Ethnicity

RR (95%CI)

RR (95%CI)

RR (95%CI)

RR (95%CI)

RR (95%CI)

 Black African

1.04 (0.92–1.17)

1.10 (0.98–1.24)

1.03 (0.95–1.11)

1.12 (1.02–1.22)

1.06 (0.96–1.16)

 Black Caribbean

1.12 (0.96–1.29)

0.96 (0.80–1.13)

1.10 (0.99–1.21)

1.13 (1.00–1.28)

1.00 (0.88–1.14)

 Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi

0.82 (0.57–1.14)

1.18 (0.88–1.55)

0.95 (0.77–1.15)

1.12 (0.89–1.39)

0.89 (0.69–1.14)

 Latin American

0.72 (0.51–0.99)

0.98 (0.71–1.33)

0.97 (0.79–1.17)

1.27 (1.02–1.56)

1.14 (0.91–1.42)

 Mixed white and black

1.36 (1.13–1.62)

1.00 (0.80–1.23)

1.09 (0.96–1.24)

0.97 (0.82–1.15)

1.00 (0.84–1.17)

 Other black

0.93 (0.62–1.35)

0.96 (0.64–1.38)

0.98 (0.77–1.23)

1.05 (0.78–1.37)

0.87 (0.63–1.16)

 Other mixed/multiple

1.16 (0.90–1.48)

1.36 (1.07–1.69)

0.97 (0.82–1.15)

0.92 (0.74–1.13)

1.03 (0.84–1.25)

 Other white

0.68 (0.53–0.87)

0.79 (0.62–1.01)

0.95 (0.82–1.09)

0.86 (0.72–1.03)

0.87 (0.72–1.03)

 Other/unknown

1.19 (0.95–1.47)

1.17 (0.93–1.45)

0.97 (0.83–1.13)

1.05 (0.87–1.25)

1.05 (0.87–1.25)

 White British

0.86 (0.72–1.01)

0.60 (0.49–0.72)

0.90 (0.82–1.00)

0.65 (0.56–0.75)

0.98 (0.87–1.09)

  1. RR Risk ratio, 95%CI 95% Confidence Interval
  2. Reference group is the overall prevalence
  3. Adjusted for clustering by school
  4. *Administered at 10 of 12 schools, total sample (n = 3535).