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Table 1 Description of the sample according to migration background

From: Epidemiology of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and direct self-injurious behavior in adolescents with a migration background: a representative study

 

N (10,638)

% female

% living with both corporal parents

% family living on social welfare

% attempting university entrance diploma

German

8157

49.3

69.4

8.0

43.1

Former Soviet Union

683

53.2

77.2

14.7

32.4

Turkey

448

52.4

80.4

24.0

31.6

Poland

292

55.9

56.9

13.8

31.7

Former Yugoslavia

183

45.0

73.9

28.0

27.1

Southern Europea

171

51.9

61.4

11.5

29.8

Northern/Western Europeb

211

50.8

62.2

8.8

39.7

Predominantly Islamic countriesc

198

50.2

75.7

38.7

36.2

Asiad

103

45.4

66.9

18.2

54.3

Other countriese

191

51.0

58.1

16.1

52.1

  1. aPortugal, Spain, Italy, Greece; b France, Benelux, Great Britain, Scandinavia; c Egypt, Afghanistan, Algeria, United Arabian Emirates, Gambia, Iraq, Iran, Jordanian, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, South-Sudan, Syria; d Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South-Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; e USA, Brazil