Table 1 Student survey (n = 645) demographics by intervention and comparison group and by school
Total (n = 645) | Comparison | Intervention | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
School A (n = 81) | School B (n = 171) | Total (n = 252) | Vic school A (n = 108) | Vic school B (n = 111) | NSW school A (n = 30) | NSW school B (n = 144) | Total (n = 393) | ||
School characteristics | |||||||||
Socioeducational position (ICSEA) | – | 914 | 1177 | – | 968 | 1104 | 924 | 937 | – |
Students in lowest quarter of socioeducational position (%) | – | 47 | 1 | – | 45 | 7 | 56 | 47 | – |
Total enrolments | – | 668 | 732 | – | 469 | 282 | 196 | 693 | – |
Indigenous students (%) | – | 32 | 0 | – | 0 | 1 | 9 | 17 | – |
Language background other than English students (%) | – | 7 | 55 | – | 70 | 14 | 74 | 4 | – |
Student characteristics | |||||||||
Gender | |||||||||
Female | 332 (51.5%) | 46 (56.8%) | 81 (47.4%) | 127 (50.4%) | 55 (50.9%) | 52 (46.8%) | 15 (50.0%) | 83 (57.6%) | 205 (52.2%) |
Male | 310 (48.1%) | 35 (43.2%) | 88 (51.5%) | 123 (48.8%) | 53 (49.1%) | 59 (53.2%) | 15 (50.0%) | 60 (41.7%) | 187 (47.6%) |
School year | |||||||||
5 | 318 (49.4%) | 41 (50.6%) | 88 (51.8%) | 129 (51.4%) | 47 (43.5%) | 63 (56.8%) | 9 (30.0%) | 70 (48.6%) | 189 (48.1%) |
6 | 326 (50.6%) | 40 (49.4%) | 82 (48.2%) | 122 (48.6%) | 61 (56.5%) | 48 (43.2%) | 21 (70.0%) | 74 (51.4%) | 204 (51.9%) |
Ethnicity | |||||||||
Indigenous | 40 (6.2%) | 15 (18.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 15 (6.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (4.5%) | 3 (10.0%) | 17 (11.8%) | 25 (6.4%) |
Middle Eastern, African, Pacific Islander, Latin American | 62 (9.6%) | 2 (2.5%) | 10 (5.8%) | 12 (4.8%) | 32 (29.6%) | 6 (5.4%) | 10 (33.3%) | 2 (1.4%) | 50 (12.7%) |
Asian | 135 (20.9%) | 10 (12.3%) | 70 (40.9%) | 80 (31.7%) | 38 (35.2%) | 4 (3.6%) | 7 (23.3%) | 6 (4.2%) | 55 (14.0%) |
Anglo/Euro | 339 (52.6%) | 42 (51.9%) | 78 (45.6%) | 120 (47.6%) | 27 (25.0%) | 82 (73.9%) | 6 (20.0%) | 104 (72.2%) | 219 (55.7%) |
Other/missing | 69 (10.7%) | 12 (14.8%) | 13 (7.6%) | 25 (9.9%) | 11 (10.2%) | 14 (12.6%) | 4 (13.3%) | 15 (10.4%) | 44 (11.2%) |
Country of birth | |||||||||
Australia | 523 (82.0%) | 72 (88.9%) | 133 (80.1%) | 205 (83.0%) | 66 (61.7%) | 100 (90.9%) | 14 (46.7%) | 138 (95.8%) | 318 (81.3%) |
Overseas | 115 (18.0%) | 9 (11.1%) | 33 (19.9%) | 42 (17.0%) | 41 (38.3%) | 10 (9.1%) | 16 (53.3%) | < 10 | 73 (18.7%) |
Religion | |||||||||
Christian | 253 (39.8%) | 34 (43.6%) | 97 (57.1%) | 131 (52.8%) | 24 (22.4%) | 25 (23.4%) | 12 (40.0%) | 61 (42.7%) | 122 (31.5%) |
Islam | 44 (6.9%) | 2 (2.6%) | 3 (1.8%) | 5 (2.0%) | 24 (22.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 14 (46.7%) | 1 (0.7%) | 39 (10.1%) |
Other religion | 62 (9.8%) | 8 (10.3%) | 15 (8.8%) | 23 (9.3%) | 31 (29.0%) | 3 (2.8%) | 2 (6.7%) | 3 (2.1%) | 39 (10.1%) |
No religion | 276 (43.5%) | 34 (43.6%) | 55 (32.4%) | 89 (35.9%) | 28 (26.2%) | 79 (73.8%) | 2 (6.7%) | 78 (54.5%) | 187 (48.3%) |