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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Reference intervals for hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume in an ethnically diverse community sample of Canadian children 2 to 36 months

Characteristic

 

Age in months: median (IQRa)

15 (12, 2)

Sex: n (%)

 Female

968 (46.0)

 Male

1138 (54.0)

Ethnicity: n (%)

Maternal

  European

1214 (57.6)

  East Asian

106 (5.0)

  South Asian

160 (7.6)

  Southeast Asian

66 (3.1)

  Arab

40 (1.9)

  African

107 (5.1)

  Latin

58 (2.8)

  Mixed

125 (5.9)

  Other

8 (0.4)

  Missing

222 (10.5)

Paternal

  European

1223 (58.1)

  East Asian

66 (3.1)

  South Asian

162 (7.7)

  Southeast Asian

53 (2.5)

  Arab

47 (2.2)

  African

142 (6.7)

  Latin

50 (2.7)

  Mixed

115 (5.5)

  Other

9 (0.4)

  Missing

239 (11.4)

Child

  European

1013 (48.1)

  East Asian

42 (2.0)

  South Asian

129 (6.1)

  Southeast Asian

39 (1.9)

  Arab

26 (1.2)

  African

80 (3.8)

  Latin

28 (1.3)

  Mixedb

479 (22.7)

  Other

2 (0.1)

  Missingc

268 (12.7)

  1. aIQR Inter Quartile Range
  2. bA child is considered of mixed ethnicity if 1) parents are of different ethnicity 2) at least one of the parents is mixed
  3. cA child’s ethnicity is categorized as missing if neither of the parents are of mixed ethnicity and the ethnicity of at least one of the parents is missing