Air Quality and Respiratory Health among Adolescents from the United Arab Emirates

Table 1

Sociodemographic profile of the study participants (,363).

Variable	Classification	Male; (%)	Female; (%)	Overall; (%)
Sex		2791 (44.7)	3458 (55.3)
School	Public	1975 (64.3)	1433 (58.6)	3820 (61.1)
	Private	996 (35.7)	2025 (41.4)	2429 (38.9)
Born in UAE	Yes	1216 (44.5)	1798 (52.6)	3014 (49.3)
Ethnicity	UAE	1216 (44.5)	1798 (52.6)	3014 (49.0)
	GCC	227 (8.3)	125 (3.7)	352 (5.7)
	Arab/Middle East	517 (18.9)	453 (13.3)	970 (15.8)
	Arab/Africa	327 (12.0)	291 (8.5)	618 (10.1)
	South East Asia	378 (13.8)	659 (19.3)	1037 (16.9)
	Western	30 (1.1)	51 (1.5)	81 (1.3)
	None/other	36 (1.3)	41 (1.2)	77 (1.3)
Father graduated from high school	Yes	1259 (56.9)	1649 (58.7)	2908 (57.8)
Mother graduated from high school	Yes	1069 (48.5)	1409 (49.5)	2478 (49.0)
Monthly household income (AED)	<2 K	87 (5.0)	74 (3.5)	161 (4.2)
	>2 and ≤5 K	441 (25.2)	445 (21.3)	886 (23.1)
	>5 and ≤8 K	304 (17.4)	369 (17.7)	672 (17.5)
	>8 and ≤10 K	211 (12.1)	258 (12.4)	469 (12.2)
	>10 and ≤12 K	160 (9.2)	188 (9.0)	348 (9.1)
	>12 and ≤15 K	125 (7.2)	188 (9.0)	313 (8.2)
	>15 and ≤20 K	114 (6.5)	171 (8.2)	285 (7.4)
	>20 K	106 (17.5)	395 (18.3)	701 (18.3)
Residential property tenure	Own	1140 (48.8)	1504 (52.5)	2687 (51.0)
	Rent	1195 (51.2)	1359 (47.5)	2578 (49.0)
Residential crowding	Yes	794 (61.3)	1249 (60.0)	2043 (60.5)

UAE = local; GCC = Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Yemen; Arab/Middle East = Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Iraq; Arab/Africa = Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia; South East Asia = India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Indonesia; Western = Europe, USA, Australia, and Canada; no nationality and others = all other nationalities.