Early Vocabulary Development of Australian Indigenous Children: Identifying Strengths

Table 5

Descriptive statistics for Indigenous vocabulary analyses.

Variable	𝑀	𝑆𝐷
W3 child Indigenous vocabulary (max. score 100)	12.00	16.93
Parent-child book reading (max. score 3)	.36	.51
Oral storytelling (max. score 3)	.62	.65
Child ear/hearing problem	36.0%
W3 Child age (months)	37.1	6.0
Primary carer age (years)	27.5	7.0
Primary carer education (max. score 14)	5.34	2.52
Primary carer speaks Indigenous language	8.2%
Number of children in home	4.0	2.1
Family income (7-point scale)	3.40	1.69
Level of relative isolation (4-point scale)	2.99	.99

𝑁=86.