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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the analytical dataset

From: Social deprivation and spatial clustering of childhood asthma in Australia

Variables

n = 2321 SA2s

Average (SD)

Range

Number of 0–14 aged children

1,991 (1,227.98)

10 to 7,889

Asthma prevalence

6.27 (1.95)

0 to 16.50

Indigenous peoplea

4.20 (8.56)

Median 2.08

0 to 95.90

Socioeconomic disadvantage scoreb

999 (82.50)

448 to 1,171

  1.  SA2 Statistical area level 2, SD Standard deviation
  2. aProportion of people with Indigenous background
  3. bSocioeconomic disadvantage was defined by the 2021 SEIFA IRSD