Clinical Study
Dental Treatment Needs in Vancouver Inner-City Elementary School-Aged Children
Table 2
Sample distribution according to sociodemographic variables.
| | Variables | Number (%) |
| | Age groups () | | | Kindergarten | 90 (16.4) | | Grades 1-2 | 170 (31.0) | | Grades 3-4 | 130 (23.7) | | Grades 5–7 | 159 (29.0) | | Gender () | | | Boys | 312 (56.3) | | Girls | 242 (43.7) | | Family’s income () | | | <20.000 | 202 (38.2) | | 20.000–40.000 | 161 (30.4) | | >40.000 | 166 (31.4) | | Having insurance | | | No | 289 (54.6) | | Yes | 240 (45.4) | | Born in Canada () | | | No | 104 (18.5) | | Yes | 357 (63.5) | | Ethnicity () | | | Aboriginal | 43 (7.7) | | Chinese | 59 (10.5) | | European | 85 (15.1) | | Filipino | 112 (19.9) | | Vietnamese | 67 (11.9) | | South Asian | 98 (17.4) | | Other | 95 (16.9) | | Last dental visit () | | | Within last year | 256 (57.8) | | More than a year ago | 23 (5.2) | | Do not remember or never | 164 (37.0) | | Total children | 562 (100%) |
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Missing data due to children’s inability to answer, or information was incomplete.
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