Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the age cohort
From: Risk-based approach to school entry examinations in Germany – a validation study
Children without heretofore known severe developmental disorders n = 2744 | Children with heretofore known severe developmental disorders = 769 | Whole age group n = 3513 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
Sex | ||||||
Male | 1334 | 48.6 | 473 | 61.5 | 1807 | 51.4 |
Female | 1410 | 51.4 | 296 | 38.5 | 1706 | 48.6 |
Age (years) | ||||||
4 | 211 | 7.7 | 46 | 6 | 257 | 7.3 |
5 | 2318 | 84.5 | 680 | 88.4 | 2998 | 85.3 |
6 | 212 | 7.7 | 42 | 5.5 | 254 | 7.2 |
7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.03 |
Social status (Brandenburger Sozialindex) | ||||||
High | 1194 | 48 | 234 | 33.4 | 1428 | 44.7 |
Medium | 841 | 33.8 | 252 | 36 | 1093 | 34.3 |
Low | 455 | 18.3 | 215 | 30.7 | 670 | 21 |
Migration background | 519 | 18.9 | 93 | 12.1 | 612 | 17.4 |
Number of Siblings | ||||||
< 3 | 2374 | 86.5 | 622 | 80.9 | 2996 | 85.3 |
> =3 | 370 | 13.5 | 147 | 19.1 | 517 | 14.7 |
Parents‘marital status | ||||||
Both parents | 1934 | 71.4 | 467 | 61.1 | 2401 | 69.2 |
Single mother | 564 | 20.8 | 216 | 28.2 | 780 | 22.5 |
Single father | 41 | 1.5 | 15 | 2 | 56 | 1.6 |
Othera | 168 | 6.1 | 67 | 8.7 | 235 | 6.7 |
Weight according to [29] | ||||||
Underweight | 288 | 10.7 | 87 | 11.7 | 375 | 10.9 |
Normal weight | 2192 | 81.1 | 570 | 76.4 | 2762 | 80.1 |
Overweight | 130 | 4.8 | 47 | 6.3 | 177 | 5.1 |
Adiposity | 94 | 3.5 | 42 | 5.6 | 136 | 3.9 |
Mean (kg): | 20.4 | s.d.: 3.5 | 20,69 | s.d.: 3.9 | 20,45 | s.d.: 3.6 |
Height (cm) | 114.7 | s.d.: 5.4 | 114,35 | s.d.: 5.5 | 114,6 | s.d.: 5.4 |
Participation in routine checkup 8 | 2036 | 85.7 | 653 | 88.6 | 2689 | 86.4 |
Participation in routine checkup 9 | 1564 | 65.8 | 528 | 71.6 | 2092 | 67.2 |