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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of participating students demographics

From: Mental health problems in a regional population of Australian adolescents: association with socio-demographic characteristics

Student demographic

Current sample (21 schools; n = 6793)

Full study sample (32 schools; n = 10,116)

n

%

n

%

Gender

 Male

3390

49.9

5061

50.0

Age

 12

829

12.2

1268

12.5

 13

2008

29.6

2934

29.0

 14

1799

26.5

2670

26.4

 15

1484

21.8

2237

22.1

 16

673

9.9

1007

10.0

Aboriginality

 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

732

10.8

1144

11.3

Socioeconomic disadvantagea

 Quintile 1 (most disadvantaged)

725

10.7

1276

12.6

 Quintile 2

2090

30.8

3201

31.7

 Quintile 3

2781

41.0

4344

43.0

 Quintile 4

1116

16.5

1211

12.0

 Quintile 5 (least disadvantaged)

68

1.00

68

0.7

Remoteness (ARIA)a

 Major cities Australia

3311

48.8

4892

48.4

 Inner regional Australia

2611

38.5

4119

40.8

 Outer regional/remote Australia

860

12.7

1094

10.8

  1. Relative to the state of NSW, both the current study sample and wider study region have a similar gender composition for the adolescent population (49.9, 51.5 and 51.5 % male; current sample, region and state respectively), however have a lower index of socio-economic status [20, 21], a higher proportion of people residing outside metropolitan areas, and a higher proportion of the adolescent population (10–19 years) are Aboriginal (10.8, 9.6 and 5.3 %; current sample, region and state respectively) [20]
  2. aSample size varied due to missing data