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Table 1 Socio-demographic background of the Norwegian (No) norm sample and the Norwegian-Vietnamese (NV) sample

From: Better mental health in children of Vietnamese refugees compared with their Norwegian peers - a matter of cultural difference?

Parents' education

No, grades 3-7

NV, grades 3-7

NV, total, grades 3-13

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

Mother

n = 12,547

Father

n = 12,343

Mother

n = 28

Father

n = 39

Mother

n = 47

Father

n = 68

< 7 years

0

0

14.3 (4)

28.2 (11)

12.8 (6)

20.3 (14)

Primary school

2.7 (345)

2.9 (355)

21.4 (6)

12.8 (5)

25.5 (12)

10.3 (7)

Secondary school

9.4 (1180)

11.4 (1401)

17.9 (5)

33.3 (13)

17.0 (8)

30.9 (21)

Upper secondary (vgsa)

49.7 (6230)

45.6 (5625)

17.9 (5)

10.3 (4)

21.3 (10)

13.2 (9)

Tertiary education

38.2 (4792)

40.2 (4962)

28.6 (8)

15.4 (6)

23.4 (11)

25.0 (17)

Family's yearly total income, NOK

No, grades 3-7

% (n)

NV, grades 3-7

% (n)

NV total, grades 3-13, % (n)

< 200.000

2.8 (350)

7.7 (3)

5.7 (4)

200-400.000

21.6 (2659)

61.5 (24)

45.7 (32)

400-600.000

36.8 (4539)

17.9 (7)

28.6 (20)

> 600.000

38.8 (4787)

12.8 (5)

20.0 (14)

Perceived level of family economy

No, grades 3-7 %(n)

No, grades 8-13 %(n)

NV, grades 3-7 %(n)

NV, grades 8-13, %(n)

  

Badly off/not so well

10.7 (1339)

7.0 (1188)

10 (4)

3.2 (1)

  

Moderately well off

46.6 (5845)

31.2 (5248)

85 (34)

71.0 (22)

  

Well/very well off

42.7 (5354)

61.8 (10.399)

5 (2)

25.8 (8)

  
  1. a Vgs, "Videregående skole" in Norwegian