From dusk to dawn: examining how adolescents engage with digital media using objective measures of screen time in a repeated measures study

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants (n = 83)

Variables	Total (%)
Age, mean (SD) years	12.4 (1)
Sex, n (%) female	35 (42)
Ethnicity, n (%)
New Zealand European	43 (52)
Māori (indigenous population of New Zealand)	31 (37)
Pacific	4 (5)
Asian	5 (6)
Parental education n (%)
High school	10 (12)
Polytechnic or similar tertiary qualification	33 (40)
University educated	40 (48)
Socioeconomic deprivation¹
High (NZ Dep 8–10)	17 (21)
Medium (NZ Dep 4–7)	34 (41)
Low (NZ Dep 1–3)	32 (39)
Sleeping environment
Shares a room with someone else (%)	20 (24)

¹ Determined using the New Zealand Index of Deprivation 2018 [31] which combines 9 variables from the 2018 New Zealand national census to determine a deprivation score which estimates the relative material and social deprivation for the area where the participant lives, where decile 1 represents areas with the least deprivation and decile 10 represents areas with the most deprivation

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