Table 2 Attainment of upper secondary education among childhood cancer survivors, population comparisons and siblings: proportions, odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.

From: Educational attainment in survivors of childhood cancer in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

 

All diagnoses combined

ALL

Other leukaemia

Lymphoma

CNS tumours

Non-CNS solid tumours

Population comparisons

Siblings

Attainment of upper secondary education by age 25, n (%)

  Yes

6127 (80.3)

1488 (83.0)

185 (84.9)

831 (83.7)

1494 (72.3)

1999 (83.4)

29880 (84.4)

5135 (84.0)

  No

1502 (19.7)

305 (17.0)

33 (15.1)

162 (16.3)

573 (27.7)

397 (16.6)

5531 (15.6)

979 (16.0)

Likelihood of not having attained upper secondary education by age 25, adjusted OR (95% CI)

  Survivors vs population comparisonsa

1.32 (1.23–1.40)

1.15 (1.00–1.33)

1.02 (0.67–1.55)

1.01 (0.84–1.22)

2.05 (1.83–2.29)

1.03 (0.91–1.16)

NA

NA

  Survivors vs siblingsb

1.57 (1.40–1.77)

1.27 (0.98–1.65)

1.18 (0.56–2.47)

1.07 (0.76–1.50)

2.72 (2.19–3.39)

1.17 (0.94–1.47)

NA

NA

Time of attainment (among individuals that have attained an upper secondary education by age 25)c, n (%)

  Without delayd

4361 (71.3)

1083 (72.8)

123 (66.5)

589 (71.0)

1011 (67.7)

1451 (72.8)

18801 (77.2)

3326 (77.7)

  1 year delay

978 (16.0)

226 (15.2)

37 (20.0)

140 (16.9)

265 (17.7)

294 (14.7)

3198 (13.1)

548 (12.8)

  2 years delay

340 (5.6)

96 (6.5)

10 (5.4)

36 (4.3)

92 (6.2)

103 (5.2)

1028 (4.2)

177 (4.1)

  3–6 years delay

441 (7.2)

82 (5.5)

15 (8.1)

65 (7.8)

126 (8.4)

146 (7.3)

1327 (5.4)

229 (5.4)

Likelihood of having attained upper secondary education without delay, adjusted OR (95% CI)

  Survivors vs population comparisonsa

0.75 (0.70–0.80)

0.79 (0.69–0.90)

0.70 (0.49–1.00)

0.70 (0.59–0.83)

0.61 (0.54–0.69)

0.87 (0.77–0.97)

NA

NA

  Survivors vs siblingsb

0.72 (0.64–0.81)

0.76 (0.60–0.97)

0.55 (0.29–1.04)

0.76 (0.54–1.08)

0.53 (0.42–0.68)

0.87 (0.70–1.07)

NA

NA

  1. ALL Acute lymphoid leukaemia, CI Confidence Interval, CNS Central nervous system, NA Not applicable, OR Odds Ratio
  2. aUnmatched analyses, adjusted for country, sex, age, calendar period of diagnosis.
  3. bMatched analyses, adjusted for sex and calendar period of diagnosis.
  4. cOnly survivors with at least one population comparison or sibling that has achieved upper secondary education by age 25 are included. Population comparisons and siblings are only included if there is a survivor in the set.
  5. dIn Sweden and Finland at age 19, in Denmark at age 20.
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