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Table 1 Sociodemographic and school characteristics of Mexican public and private school students. Mexico, 2014

From: Association between attempted suicide and academic performance indicators among middle and high school students in Mexico: results from a national survey

 

Level

 

X 2

df

p value

Middle school

High school

Total

(n = 14,435)

(n = 14,084)

(n = 28,519)

n

%

n

%

n

%

Sex

31.8

1

0.289

 Male

7253

50.5

6990

48.8

14,243

49.9

   

 Female

7182

49.5

7094

51.2

14,276

50.1

   

Age (years)

94,470

8

< 0.001

 11

734

5.8

734

3.6

   

 12

4463

31.4

4463

19.4

   

 13

4874

31.9

4874

19.7

   

 14

3515

25.0

414

3.2

3929

16.6

   

 15

717

4.9

4527

29.5

5244

14.3

   

 16

93

0.7

4457

33.5

4550

13.2

   

 17

25

0.2

3292

23.6

3317

9.2

   

 18

13

0.1

918

6.2

931

2.4

   

 19–29

1

0.0

476

3.9

477

1.5

   

Worked the year before

544.0

2

< 0.001

 No

11,422

79.2

10,690

77.6

22,112

78.6

   

 Yes, part time job

1550

11.7

2266

15.7

3816

13.2

   

 Yes, full time job

1164

9.1

941

6.7

2105

8.2

   

Speaks an indigenous language

401.0

1

0.001

 No

13,231

94.2

13,329

96.8

26,560

95.2

   

 Yes

784

5.8

420

3.2

1204

4.8

   

Size of locality

323.0

2

0.182

 Big city

3650

24.5

3853

28.1

7503

25.9

   

 Medium/small city

6450

40.9

6555

42.0

13,005

41.3

   

 Small town or rural area

4155

34.6

3567

29.9

7722

32.8

   

Family structure

140.8

4

0.006

 Both parents

10,595

74.5

9954

72.5

20,549

73.8

   

 Both parents (one surrogate)

899

5.3

767

4.7

1666

5.1

   

 Mother (or surrogate)

2202

15.1

2477

17.2

4679

15.9

   

 Father (or surrogate)

325

2.2

328

2.2

653

2.2

   

 Other

414

2.8

558

3.4

972

3.0

   

Mother’s (or surrogate's) education level

3059.6

5

< 0.001

 Elementary or no education

3590

28.2

3096

22.1

6686

25.9

   

 Middle school

4523

31.3

4379

30.8

8902

31.1

   

 High school

2493

17.0

3442

24.5

5935

19.9

   

 University/college

1428

9.3

1718

12.5

3146

10.5

   

 Postgraduate studies

1021

6.2

1056

7.8

2077

6.8

   

 Other

1088

7.9

283

2.2

1371

5.7

   

Father’s (or surrogate's) education level

3092.5

5

<0.001

 Elementary or no education

3439

27.2

2919

20.7

6358

24.7

   

 Middle school

4170

29.7

3949

29.0

8119

29.5

   

 High school

2426

16.4

3274

23.8

5700

19.2

   

 University/college

1508

10.0

1937

14.2

3445

11.7

   

 Postgraduate studies

1115

6.6

1194

8.4

2309

7.3

   

 Other

1427

10.0

515

3.8

1942

7.6

   

School shift

5271.1

2

< 0.001

 Morning

11,038

77.7

8688

58.9

19,726

70.5

   

 Afternoon

3145

19.3

4156

30.8

7301

23.7

   

 Other

252

3.1

1240

10.2

1492

5.8

   

School yeara

453.9

2

0.437

 First (7th, 10th)

5711

41.1

6542

42.2

12,253

41.5

   

 Second (8th, 11th)

5471

34.5

3826

29.1

9297

32.4

   

 Third (9th, 12th)

3253

24.3

3716

28.7

6969

26.0

   
  1. Missing Values: Worked last year (486); indigenous language speaker (755); place of residence (289); mother’s education (402); father’s education (646)
  2. Percentages are weighted, frequencies are unweighted; p value adjusted due to the survey design
  3. a7th, 8th and 9th grades as equivalents to the three grades of middle school and 10th, 11th and 12th for the three grades of high school. In México, middle and high school are divided into 3 grades each