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Table 1 Demographic Information

From: Broad autism phenotype features of Chinese parents with autistic children and their associations with severity of social impairment in probands

 

PCA (n = 299)

PTC (n = 274)

t2

p value

 

Mean or N (SD or %)

Mean or N (SD or %)

  

Age of child, Months

59.60(14.89)

58.63(15.14)

−0.771

0.441

Gender of child, N (%)

  

97.10

<0.001

 Boys

258(86.3 %)

131(47.8 %)

  

 Girls

41(13.7 %)

143(52.2 %)

  

Child’s SRS total score

98.93(25.35)

43.23(11.29)

−30.532

<0.001

Age of father, Years

35.07(3.80)

34.97(3.94)

−0.318

0.751

Age of mother, Years

32.88(3.42)

32.60(3.40)

−0.973

0.331

Education of father, N (%)

  

14.610

0.001

 Primary to junior high school

29(9.7 %)

58(21.1 %)

  

 High school to some college

146(48.9 %)

116(42.4 %)

  

 Undergraduate or above

124(41.4 %)

100(36.5 %)

  

Education of mother, N (%)

  

19.522

<0.001

 Primary to junior high school

43(14.4 %)

81(29.5 %)

  

 High school to some college

139(46.5 %)

102(37.2 %)

  

 Undergraduate or above

117(39.1 %)

91(33.3 %)

  

Family income (Yuan)

  

44.487

<0.001

 Less than 30,000

57(19.1 %)

35(12.8 %)

  

 30,000-less than 50,000

93(31.1 %)

41(15 %)

  

 50,000-less than 70,000

48(16.1 %)

34(12.4 %)

  

 70,000-less than 100,000

43(14.4 %)

53(19.3 %)

  

 More than 100,000

58(19.4 %)

111(40.5 %)

  
  1. PCA: parents of children with autism; PTC: parents of typically developing children. SRS: Social Responsiveness Scale. Sixty-three children with autism and sixty-three typically developing children who were younger than four 4 years old, were excluded from the analyses of SRS scores. Family income: according to the annual per capita income statistics published by the statistics for Hunan province in 2011.