Table 1 |
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Characteristics of Western Australian girls aged 4-16 years in 1993 |
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Characteristic |
Proportion (%) |
95% CI |
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Family type |
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Original |
73.2 |
69.0 - 77.0 |
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Step/blended |
9.8 |
2.6 - 12.2 |
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Sole-parent |
17.0 |
13.6 - 20.8 |
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Child's CBCL score - Aggressive & Delinquent (parent and teacher reported) |
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Aggressive and Delinquent |
2.3 |
1.5 - 3.3 |
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Either Aggressive or Delinquent |
6.8 |
5.3 - 8.4 |
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Neither Aggressive nor Delinquent |
90.9 |
88.7 - 92.8 |
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Combined carer income |
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Low |
38.8 |
34.4 - 43.3 |
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Medium |
38.6 |
34.5 - 43.1 |
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High |
22.6 |
19.6 - 26.2 |
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Region |
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Metropolitan |
73.5 |
68.1 - 78.5 |
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Non-Metropolitan |
26.5 |
22.3 - 31.0 |
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Primary carer was a smoker |
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Yes |
23.8 |
20.2 - 27.7 |
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Highest school year completed by primary carer |
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Year 9 or lower |
14.1 |
11.3 - 17.3 |
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Year 10 or higher |
85.9 |
82.7 - 88.8 |
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Girl's mother was a teenage mother |
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Yes |
4.4 |
3.2 - 6.0 |
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Primary carer was in receipt of government benefits |
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Yes |
36.8 |
32.7 - 41.1 |
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Importance of religion for child's primary carer |
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Very important |
21.8 |
18.7 - 25.3 |
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Reasonably important |
34.1 |
30.7 - 37.5 |
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Not at all important |
44.1 |
40.2 - 48.3 |
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Child was breastfed |
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Yes |
84.3 |
81.3 - 86.9 |
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Family functioning |
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Poor |
10.9 |
8.7 - 13.7 |
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Gaudie et al. BMC Public Health 2010 10:63 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-63 |
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