Developmental disorders among Norwegian-born children with immigrant parents

Table 1 Characteristics of the sample, Norwegian-born children aged 0–18 years between 2006 and 2018, by parental immigration category and parental region of origin

	Two Norwegian-born parents	Two immigrant parents	EU/EEA/Oceania/USA/Canada	Europe except EU	Africa	Asia	Latin America
Total, N	487 545	93 432	27 802	10 438	19 743	34 197	1 252
Parental education, %
Primary	4.9	25.2	8.7	17.2	42.8	29.8	14.4
Secondary	29.9	27.3	25.8	33.5	26.6	27	25.4
Higher, low	42.8	25.9	30	26.3	20.3	26.1	25
HIgher, high	22.5	21.5	35.5	22.9	10.3	17.1	35.3
Household income (tertiles), %
Low	28.9	73	62.9	65	89.9	74.7	58.8
Middle	38.7	18.5	24.5	24.3	8.3	17.5	23
High	32.4	8.5	12.6	10.7	1.9	7.8	18.2

	Only immigrant mother	EU/EEA/Oceania/USA/Canada	Europe except EU	Africa	Asia	Latin America
Total, N	49,503	22,268	4463	2312	15,921	4539
Parental education, %
Primary	7.7	4.5	5.4	10	12.7	6.9
Secondary	27.9	22.4	20.6	32.7	35.6	33
Higher, low	33.9	35.4	30.5	34.3	33.1	32.4
HIgher, high	30.4	37.6	43.6	23.0	18.6	27.7
Household income (tertiles), %
Low	39	29.0	35.1	51.2	51.3	43.1
Middle	31.5	33.3	33.8	27.5	28.9	30.9
High	29.5	37.7	31.1	21.4	19.8	26

	Only immigrant father	EU/EEA/Oceania/USA/Canada	Europe except EU	Africa	Asia	Latin America
Total, N	39 290	23 887	1 696	3 493	7 481	2 733
Parental education, %
Primary	8.3	4.9	14.7	11.3	16.5	7.3
Secondary	22.2	18.9	34.5	21.5	31.0	21
Higher, low	38.9	40.1	34.5	41.9	34.1	40.2
HIgher, high	30.6	36.1	16.4	25.2	18.4	31.5
Household income (tertiles), %
Low	40.7	31.2	47.6	61.5	55.8	52
Middle	32.4	34.5	36.3	26.4	28.1	31.3
High	26.9	34.4	16.1	12	16.1	16.7

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