| |
All Children
|
Male children
|
Female children
|
Mothers
|
Fathers
|
|---|
|
N (650)
|
359
|
190 (53%)
|
169 (47%)
|
130
|
100
|
|
Born in Sweden
|
318 (89%)
|
169 (89%)
|
150 (89%)
|
0
|
0
|
|
Age(yrs ± SD)
|
7.06 (3.8)
|
6.9 (3.8)
|
7.3 (3.8)
|
32.7 (6.1)
|
39.3 (9.0)
|
|
Crowded living quarters (%)
|
255 (71%)
|
133 (70)
|
122 (72)
|
90 (69)
|
73 (73)
|
|
Asthma (phys-diag.)
|
83 (23%)
|
50 (26%)
|
33 (19.5%)
|
6 (5%)
|
7 (7%)
|
|
Asthma medication
|
54 (15%)
|
35 (18%)
|
19 (11%)
|
n.a.
|
n.a
|
- Family origin: Iraq (30%); Lebanon (25%); Balkans (17%); other Near and Middle East countries (Iran, Jordan, Syria) (11%); Somalia (9%); other countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Chile, and South Africa) (8%)
