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Table 1 Personal and Family Information

From: Investigating the intentions and reasons of senior high school students in registering for nursing education in China

Item

N

N*(%)

χ2

P value

Gender

  

0.59

0.44

Male

3558

29(0.82)

  

Female

4492

30(0.67)

  

Performance ranking

  

30.85

< 0.001

 Top 5%

634

3(0.47)

  

 6 − 30%

2351

19(0.81)

  

 31 − 70%

3720

12(0.32)

  

 71 − 94%

1084

23(2.12)

  

 Bottom 5%

261

2(0.77)

  

Course selection

  

0.84

0.36

 Liberal Arts (Partial Liberal Arts)

 Science (Partial Science)

2489

5561

15(0.6)

44(0.79)

  

Monthly income per person in family (RMB)

  

3.239

0.52

 < 2000

686

5(0.73)

  

 ≥ 200, < 5000

3228

24(0.74)

  

 ≥ 5000, < 10,000

2871

25(0.87)

  

 ≥ 10,000, < 20,000

1068

5(0.47)

  

 ≥ 20,000

197

0(0)

  

One or both parents are medical workers*

  

1.737

0.188

 Yes

542

7(1.29)

  

 No

7508

52(0.69)

  

Family attitude towards learning nursing

  

53.022

< 0.001

 Oppose

912

7(0.77)

  

 Neutral

5329

16(0.3)

  

 Support

1809

36(1.99)

  
  1. Abbreviations: medical workers*, People who are doctors, nurses, some sort of technician at the hospital, basic medical researchers, public health and prevention related workers, pharmacologists, etc.