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Table 1 Socio-economic characteristics of study participants

From: Feasibility study of a family- and school-based intervention for child behavior problems in Nepal

 

N

%

Age

 Less than 10

13

31.7

 10–12

16

39.0

 13–16

12

29.3

 Total

41

100.0

 Range and standard deviation

5–15 (2.8)

 

Gender

 Girls

10

24.4

 Boys

31

75.6

 Total

41

100.0

Types of family

 Single parent

5

12.2

 Nuclear

27

65.9

 Extended

9

22.0

 Total

41

100.0

Caste/ethnicity

 Brahman/Chhetri

19

46.3

 Janajati

18

43.9

 Dalit

4

9.8

 Total

41

100.0

Father occupation

 Foreign employment

15

41.7

 Daily wage labor

9

25.0

 Service

7

19.4

 Others (agriculture, business, self-employed)

5

13.9

 Total

36

100.0

Sources of family income

 Own agriculture

4

9.8

 Fieldwork for other landowner

4

9.8

 Daily wage labor non-farming

6

14.6

 Service

8

19.5

 Foreign employment

16

39.0

 Others

3

7.3

 Total

41

100.0

Food sufficiency for the whole year

 Yes

14

34.1

 No

27

65.9

 Total

41

100.0