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Table 1 Descriptive statistics (n%) among Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children screened-positive and screened-negative adolescents

From: School completion and progression to higher education in adolescents with social anxiety: a linkage between Young-HUNT3 and national educational data (2008–2019), Norway

 

Screened negatives

n = 6,221

Screened positives

n = 388

 

All

n= 6,221

Females

n= 3,063

Males

n= 3,158

All

n= 388

Females

n= 267

Males

n= 121

Social anxiety disorder symptom index

      

Mean score (SD)

1.9 (0.7)

2.0 (0.7)

1.7 (0.6)

2.8 (0.9)

2.9 (0.8)

2.6 (0.9)

Missing n (%)

242 (3.9)

79 (2.6)

163 (5.2)

19 (4.9)

14 (5.2)

5 (4.1)

Age

      

Mean age (SD)

16.0 (1.7)

16.0 (1.7)

15.9 (1.7)

16.1 (1.9)

16.2 (1.8)

16.0 (2.0)

Age group (n%)

      

13–15 years

3,176 (51.1)

1,552 (50.7)

1,624 (51.4)

195 (50.3)

125 (46.8)

70 (57.9)

≥ 16 years

3,045 (48.9)

1,511 (49.3)

1,534 (48.6)

193 (49.7)

142 (53.2)

51 (42.1)

Family’s financial status (n%)

      

Worse than others’

497 (8.5)

263 (8.9)

234 (8.0)

57 (15.9)

47 (18.9)

10 (9.2)

Equal to others’

4,310 (73.4)

2,223 (75.6)

2,087 (71.3)

250 (69.8)

173 (69.5)

77 (70.6)

Better than others’

1,064 (18.1)

456 (15.5)

608 (20.8)

51 (14.3)

29 (11.6)

22 (20.2)

Missing

350 (5.6)

121 (4.0)

229 (7.3)

30 (7.7)

18 (6.7)

12 (9.9)

Completion of upper secondary school (n%)

      

≤ 20 years

4,248 (68.9)

2,317 (76.2)

1,931 (61.7)

211 (55.5)

153 (58.4)

58 (49.2)

≤ 21 years

4,758 (76.5)

2,466 (80.6)

2,292 (72.7)

237 (61.2)

166 (62.2)

71 (59.2)

≤ 22 years

4,968 (79.9)

2,544 (83.1)

2,424 (76.8)

262 (67.7)

179 (67.0)

83 (69.2)

≤ 23 years

5,075 (81.6)

2,589 (84.6)

2,486 (78.8)

272 (70.3)

187 (70.0)

85 (70.8)

≤ 24 years

5,167 (83.1)

2,625 (85.8)

2,542 (80.6)

277 (71.6)

191 (71.5)

86 (71.7)

≤ 25 years

5,239 (84.3)

2,659 (86.9)

2,580 (81.8)

283 (73.1)

195 (73.0)

88 (73.3)

Missing

5 (0.1)

2 (0.1)

3 (0.1)

1 (0.3)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.8)

Educational program

      

Academic program n (%)

3374 (65.1)

1984 (75.7)

1390 (54.2)

165 (59.1)

118 (61.8)

47 (53.4)

Vocational program n (%)

1810 (34.9)

637 (24.3)

1173 (45.8)

114 (40.9)

73 (38.2)

41 (46.6)

Missing n (%)

55 (1.1)

38 (1.4)

17 (0.7)

4 (1.4)

4 (2.1)

0 (0.0)

Entered higher education by ≤ 25 years

      

Completers of academic program n (%)

3092 (91.6)

1868 (94.2)

1224 (88.1)

143 (86.7)

105 (89.0)

38 (80.9)

  1. *The percentages of those who completed upper secondary school at ≤ 20 years do not include participants born in 1987 (n = 72). Parts of this table are also published in [34], and [21]