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Table 2 Description of Samples

From: Measuring emotional and social wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations: an analysis of a Negative Life Events Scale

 

Carers

Householders

Remote Indigenous*

All Aust Indigenous*

n

436

306

  

Median age

27 (IQR: 22–35)

39 (IQR: 31–47)

  

% female

91

48

  

Mean weekly income

$313.24**

$274.57**

$350***

$387***

% employed

12.6

30

52

46

%Completed year 10

46

39

54

Not available

%Reported at least one stressor on NLES

96

96

85.5

82.3

Mean number of stressors reported on NLES

6.11 (sd = 3.65)

7.01 (sd = 3.68)

Not available

Not available

  1. * Values from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [47]
  2. ** Individual income based on self-report
  3. ***Individual income based on mean equivalised gross household weekly income