Adolescent anxiety and depression: burden of disease study in 53,894 secondary school pupils in the Netherlands

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Demographics of the 13–15 year olds in the Dutch population, total sample, and subsample^a

	Dutch population (N = 565,921)	Total sample (N = 53,894)	Subsample (N = 33,178)
Gender
Girls (%)	49.7	50.5	50.2
Age
13 (%)	32.1	29.1	26.5
14 (%)	33.5	36.6	41.0
15 (%)	34.4	34.3	32.6
Ethnicity
Dutch (%)	75.3	71.0	78.6
Western^b migration background (%)	7.12	6.7	5.3
Non-western^c migration background (%)	17.6	22.4	16.1

^a The subsample completed (next to health-related quality of life, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and substance use disorders) a questionnaire on somatic illnesses
^b Western = Europe (excluding Turkey), North America, Oceania, Japan, Indonesia
^c Non-western = Africa, Latin-America, Asia (without Japan and Indonesia)

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