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Table 4 Associations (Pearson’s correlation coefficient, r) between parents’ earned income (2014–2018) and adolescents’ responses to the Family Affluence Scale (2015–2019)

From: Does the family affluence scale reflect actual parental earned income, level of education and occupational status? A validation study using register data in Sweden

Year

Father’s income

n

Mother’s income

n

Total parental income

n

2015

0.43

93

0.41

98

0.48

89

2016

0.46

466

0.28

476

0.44

460

2017

0.26

640

0.26

659

0.31

633

2018

0.28

739

0.34

766

0.35

733

2019

0.33

203

0.41

214

0.43

201

  1. Note. All correlations were statistically significant (p < 0.001)