Pathways to child and adolescent psychiatric clinics: a multilevel study of the significance of ethnicity and neighbourhood social characteristics on source of referral

Table 1 Characteristics of the 2054 children in the sample (percentages/mean)

Variable	Sweden (n = 1678, 82%)	Nordic countries (other than Sweden) (n = 54, 3%)	Other European countries (n = 73, 4%)	Asia (n = 145, 7%)	South America (n = 64, 3%)	Africa (n = 40, 2%)
Gender (%)
Boys	34	24	43	41	47	48
Girls	66	76	57	59	53	52
Age (mean)	15	15	15	16	15	16
Family structure (%)
Living with both parents	45	35	48	45	34	28
Not living with both parents	55	65	52	55	66	72
Neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation¹ (%)
Low	35.7	20.4	19.2	8.3	15.6	10.0
Middle	36.9	33.3	30.1	22.8	20.3	22.5
High	27.4	46.3	50.7	69.0	64.1	67.5

¹ For descriptive statistics, level of socioeconomic deprivation was divided into three groups (based on tertile cut-off points) ranging from low levels to high levels of socioeconomic deprivation

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