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Table 1 Socioeconomic profile of participants recruited in FLEHS III (maternity hospitals with and without targeted strategy) and FLEHS II

From: Human biomonitoring from an environmental justice perspective: supporting study participation of women of Turkish and Moroccan descent

  

FLEHS III 2014

FLEHS II 2008

  

(a) Standard strategy in 4 maternity hospitals

(b) Targeted strategy in 2 maternity hospitals

(c) Total in 6 maternity hospitals (a + b)

(d) Total in 6 maternity hospitals

 

Recruited participants

N = 180

N = 101

N = 281

N = 255

Educational attainment mother

Primary education (less than secondary school)

8.5%

10.4%

9.2%

8.7%

 

Secondary education (secondary school)

26.6%

37.5%

30.4%

29.8%

 

Tertiary education (college)

65.0%

52.1%

60.4%

61.5%

Ethnic background mother a

Turkish/Moroccan

2.2%

20.8%

8.9%

2.0%

 

Belgium

87.3%

69.3%

81.1%

94.1%

 

Other

10.0%

9.9%

10.0%

3.9%

Household income b

Below poverty line

10.8%

25.0%

16.4%

12.5%

 

Above poverty line

89.2%

75.0%

83.6%

87.5%

  1. aCountry of birth of parents of mother
  2. bEquivalized monthly household income