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Table 1 Mean Age At Menarche across birth cohorts, ethnicity, area of residence, and economic status among Yunnan women during the study period

From: A secular trend in age at menarche in Yunnan Province, China: a multiethnic population study of 1,275,000 women

  

Age at menarche

Total (%)

N = 1,275,000

Mean (SD)

95% CI

P value

Birth cohorta

   

<0.0001

 <1970s

3380(0.261)

14.119(1.405)

14.072–14.166

 

 1970s

109,206(8.446)

13.866(1.283)

13.859–13.874

 

 1980s

575,938(44.542)

13.755(1.233)

13.752–13.759

 

 1990s

575,103(44.477)

13.613(1.170)

13.610–13.616

 

 Early 2000s

4985(0.386)

13.296(1.039)

13.267–13.325

 

Ethnic groupb

   

<0.0001

 Han

814,111(63.852)

13.671(1.179)

13.669–13.674

 

 Yi

152,381(11.951)

13.772(1.281)

13.765–13.778

 

 Dai

46,448(3.643)

13.610(1.237)

13.599–13.621

 

 Bai

38,134(2.990)

13.842(1.329)

13.829–13.856

 

 Miao

38,420(3.013)

13.655(1.141)

13.644–13.666

 

 Hani

37,022(2.904)

13.792(1.291)

13.779–13.805

 

 Zhuang

32,857(2.577)

13.665(1.235)

13.652–13.679

 

 Lisu

24,760(1.942)

14.058(1.369)

14.041–14.075

 

 Hui

15,487(1.215)

13.403(1.099)

13.386–13.420

 

 Laku

13,802(1.183)

13.721(1.220)

13.701–13.741

 

 Wa

12,679(0.994)

13.631(1.103)

13.611–13.650

 

 The othersc

41,106(3.224)

13.865(1.307)

13.853–13.878

 

Area of residenced

   

<0.0001

 Rural

1,231,899(96.620)

13.707(1.212)

13.705–13.709

 

 urban

43,094(3.380)

13.477(1.181)

13.466–13.488

 

Economic status

   

<0.0001

 Extreme poverty

343,014(26.903)

13.799(1.142)

13.795–13.803

 

 Middling poverty

549,681(43.112)

13.711(1.235)

13.708–13.714

 

 Non-poverty

382,305(29.985)

13.593(1.231)

13.589–13.597

 
  1. a Data regarding the birth cohort were missing for 6388 cases (0.5%)
  2. bData regarding the ethnicity were missing for 7793 cases (0.6%)
  3. cSee Supplement 1 for detail
  4. dData regarding the area of residence were missing for 7 cases