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Table 2 Descriptive statistics for socioeconomic exposures and covariates at birth

From: Social inequalities in child mental health trajectories: a longitudinal study using birth cohort data 12 countries

  

ALSPAC (N = 9707)

CHOP (N = 

662)

DNBC (N = 

55,163)

EDEN (N = 

1426)

GenR (N = 

6726)

MoBa (N = 

73,042)

The Raine study (N = 2294)

Rhea (N = 584)

Maternal Education

High

1420 (14.6)

206 (31.1)

28,018 (49.4)

840 (58.9)

3328 (49.5)

49,404 (67.6)

204 (34.9)

470 (20.5)

Medium

6733 (69.4)

338 (51.1)

21,071 (37.1)

519 (36.4)

2863 (42.6)

22,250 (30.5)

299 (51.2)

627 (27.3)

Low

1554 (16)

118 (17.8)

7666 (13.5)

67 (4.7)

535 (7.95)

1388 (1.9)

81 (13.9)

1197 (52.2)

Disposable Income

1st quintile

1418 (16.3)

79 (12.5)

9362 (18.6)

191 (13.9)

853 (15.5)

12,553 (20)

100 (22)

0 (NaN)

2nd quintile

1702 (19.6)

102 (16.2)

10,098 (20.1)

271 (19.7)

1030 (18.7)

12,541 (20)

103 (22.6)

0 (NaN)

3rd quintile

1845 (21.2)

133 (21.1)

10,233 (20.4)

301 (21.8)

1177 (21.4)

12,690 (20.2)

93 (20.4)

0 (NaN)

4th quintile

1857 (21.3)

157 (24.9)

10,240 (20.4)

295 (21.4)

1207 (21.9)

12,482 (19.9)

105 (23.1)

0 (NaN)

5th quintile

1879 (21.6)

160 (25.4)

10,315 (20.5)

320 (23.2)

1247 (22.6)

12,471 (19.9)

54 (11.9)

0 (NaN)

Missing

1006 (10.4)

31 (4.68)

6507 (11.5)

48 (3.37)

1212 (18)

10,305 (14.1)

129 (22.1)

2294 (100)

Child sex

Male

4990 (51.4)

313 (47.3)

28,244 (49.8)

743 (52.1)

3386 (50.3)

37,400 (51.2)

327 (56)

1177 (51.3)

Female

4717 (48.6)

349 (52.7)

28,511 (50.2)

683 (47.9)

3340 (49.7)

35,642 (48.8)

257 (44)

1117 (48.7)

Maternal age at birth

Mean ± SD

28.8 ± 4.62

30.9 ± 4.56

30.1 ± 4.21

30 ± 4.74

31.2 ± 4.93

30.4 ± 4.42

30 ± 4.77

28 ± 5.82

Maternal ethnicity

Western

9464 (98.7)

NA*

NA

NA*

4285 (63.8)

NA

NA*

2059 (89.8)

Non‐western

129 (1.34)

NA*

NA

NA*

2435 (36.2)

NA

NA*

235 (10.2)

Missing

114 (1.17)

NA*

NA

NA*

6 (0.09)

NA

NA*

0 (0)

Maternal mental health

No

8305 (89)

0 (NaN)

50,774 (92.9)

1357 (95.2)

3104 (69.8)

65,873 (92.2)

511 (97.3)

0 (NaN)

Yes

1023 (11)

0 (NaN)

3903 (7.14)

69 (4.84)

1340 (30.2)

5594 (7.83)

14 (2.67)

0 (NaN)

Missing

379 (3.9)

662 (100)

2078 (3.66)

0 (0)

2282 (33.9)

1575 (2.16)

59 (10.1)

2294 (100)

Internalising problems

Mean ± SD

2.6 ± 2.58

3.16 ± 2.73

3.31 ± 3.13

3.4 ± 2.64

5.64 ± 4.88

2.17 ± 2.09

6.6 ± 5.02

7.18 ± 5.67

Externalising problems

Mean ± SD

4.51 ± 3.25

5.34 ± 3.32

3.92 ± 3.07

5.73 ± 3.72

8.36 ± 6.32

5.04 ± 3.25

8.1 ± 6.48

9.92 ± 7.41

  1. Figures represent N (%) for categorical variables and mean and standard deviation for continuous variables. Sample comprises participants with complete data on maternal education, child sex, maternal age at birth and at least one measurement of either internalising or externalising at one time point. ’N’ represents number of participants. NA* indicates cell counts <20 removed to prevent disclosure. CHOP, EDEN & Rhea excluded from ethnicity analysis