Table 1 Nationally representative descriptive statistics of the observed sample.

From: An exploratory cross-national analysis of the childhood predictors of inner peace in the Global Flourishing Study

Characteristic

N = 202,8981

Relationship with mother

 

  Very good

127,836 (63%)

  Somewhat good

52,439 (26%)

  Somewhat bad

11,060 (5.5%)

  Very bad

4,642 (2.3%)

  Does not apply

5,965 (2.9%)

  (Missing)

956 (0.5%)

Relationship with father

 

  Very good

107,742 (53%)

  Somewhat good

55,714 (27%)

  Somewhat bad

15,807 (7.8%)

  Very bad

8,278 (4.1%)

  Does not apply

13,985 (6.9%)

  (Missing)

1,372 (0.7%)

Parent marital status

 

  Parents married

152,001 (75%)

  Divorced

17,726 (8.7%)

  Parents were never married

15,534 (7.7%)

  One or both parents had died

7,794 (3.8%)

  (Missing)

9,843 (4.9%)

Subjective financial status of family growing up

 

  Lived comfortably

70,861 (35%)

  Got by

82,905 (41%)

  Found it difficult

35,852 (18%)

  Found it very difficult

12,606 (6.2%)

  (Missing)

674 (0.3%)

Abuse

 

  Yes

29,139 (14%)

  No

167,279 (82%)

  (Missing)

6,479 (3.2%)

Outsider growing up

 

  Yes

28,732 (14%)

  No

170,577 (84%)

  (Missing)

3,589 (1.8%)

Self-rated health growing up

 

  Excellent

67,121 (33%)

  Very good

63,086 (31%)

  Good

47,378 (23%)

  Fair

19,877 (9.8%)

  Poor

4,906 (2.4%)

  (Missing)

530 (0.3%)

Immigration status

 

  Born in this country

190,998 (94%)

  Born in another country

9,791 (4.8%)

  (Missing)

2,110 (1.0%)

Age 12 religious service attendance

 

  At least 1/week

83,237 (41%)

  1–3/month

33,308 (16%)

   < 1/month

36,928 (18%)

  Never

47,445 (23%)

  (Missing)

1,980 (1.0%)

Year of birth

 

  1998–2005; age 18–24

27,007 (13%)

  1993–1998; age 25–29

20,700 (10%)

  1983–1993; age 30–39

40,256 (20%)

  1973–1983; age 40–49

34,464 (17%)

  1963–1973; age 50–59

31,793 (16%)

  1953–1963; age 60–69

27,763 (14%)

  1943–1953; age 70–79

16,776 (8.3%)

  1943 or earlier; age 80 + 

4,119 (2.0%)

  (Missing)

20 (< 0.1%)

Gender

 

  Male

98,411 (49%)

  Female

103,488 (51%)

  Other

602 (0.3%)

  (Missing)

397 (0.2%)

Country

 

  Argentina

6,724 (3.3%)

  Australia

3,844 (1.9%)

  Brazil

13,204 (6.5%)

  Egypt

4,729 (2.3%)

  Germany

9,506 (4.7%)

  Hong Kong

3,012 (1.5%)

  India

12,765 (6.3%)

  Indonesia

6,992 (3.4%)

  Israel

3,669 (1.8%)

  Japan

20,543 (10%)

  Kenya

11,389 (5.6%)

  Mexico

5,776 (2.8%)

  Nigeria

6,827 (3.4%)

  Philippines

5,292 (2.6%)

  Poland

10,389 (5.1%)

  South Africa

2,651 (1.3%)

  Spain

6,290 (3.1%)

  Sweden

15,068 (7.4%)

  Tanzania

9,075 (4.5%)

  Turkey

1,473 (0.7%)

  United Kingdom

5,368 (2.6%)

  United States

38,312 (19%)

  1. 1n (%); History of abuse was not collected in Israel.