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Table 1 Demographic variables

From: Client-therapist dyads and therapy outcome: Does sex matching matters? A cross-sectional study

 

Surveyed outpatient psychotherapy patients

Males (n = 339, 28%)

Females (n = 873, 72%)

Total (N = 1212)

German total population

    
    

♀ = 41.818, 51%a

♂ n = 40.184, 49%a

    

Age (years)

        

 M

48.4

46.8

47.2

     

 SD

13.7

13.1

13.3

     

 Range

18–83

18–85

18–85

     

Number (n)

Number (n)

Proportion (%)

Number (n)

Proportion (%)

Number (n)

Proportion (%)

Number (n)

Proportion (%)

18–29 years

38

11.2

97

11.1

135

11.1

9379.5

13.3b

30–44  years

85

25.1

262

30.0

347

28.6

22.353

31.5b

45–65 years

178

52.5

439

50.3

617

50.9

22.401

31.6b

Up to 65 yrs

38

11.2

75

8.6

113

9.32

16.729

23.6b

Family Status

        

Married

125

36.9

345

39.5

470

38.8

35.612

50.3b

Single

117

34.5

211

24.2

328

27.1

23.063

32.5b

Legal partnership

4

1.2

3

0.3

7

0.6

  

Married, living separated

15

4.4

43

4.9

58

4.8

  

Widow/Divorced

78

23.0

271

31.1

349

28.8

12.187

17.2b

Divorced

60

17.7

211

24.2

271

22.4

  

Widowed

18

5.3

60

6.9

78

6.4

  

Highest academic degree

        

Secondary school

80

23.6

162

18.6

242

20.0

28.823

42.3c

Intermediate maturity

95

28.0

339

38.9

434

35.8

19.504

28.8c

Technical / university entrance qualification

16.841

24.7c

      

High School

64

18.9

140

16.1

204

16.9

  

Degree

98

28.9

227

26.0

325

26.8

  

Still going to school

1

0.3

2

0.2

3

0.2

  

No educational qualification

1

0.3

2

0.2

3

0.2

2324

3.4c

Without information

1

0.1

567

0.8c

    

Profession

        

Employed

170

50.2

473

54.2

643

53.1

34.901

42.5d

Unemployed

44

13.0

76

8.7

120

9.9

4401

5.4d

Pensioner / retiree

97

28.6

186

21.3

283

23.4

20.433

24.9d

Military service / miscellaneous

12

3.5

41

4.7

53

4.4

  

Not employed / housewife / husband

3

0.9

56

6.4

59

4.9

  

In vocational training / pupil / student

13

4.1

41

4.7

54

4.5

  

Income

        

Income from relatives

22.400

27.3d

      

West Germany

228

67.3

583

66.8

811

66.9

65.664

80.0e

East Germany

111

32.7

290

33.2

401

33.1

16.554

20.0e

Monthly net income / person in household (EUR)

        

 < 1000

138

46.8

455

59.8

593

56.2

  

1000– < 1500

80

27.1

191

25.1

271

25.7

  

1500– < 2000

44

14.9

90

11.8

134

12.7

  

2000– < 2500

13

4.4

18

2.4

31

2.9

  

2500– < 3000

10

3.4

3

0.4

13

1.2

  

Ab 3000

10

3.4

4

0.5

14

1.3

  
  1. A = Microcensus 2008, total population, figures in thousands, n = 82,002,400. b = 2008 microcensus, respondents over 15 years of age, figures in thousands, n = 70,863,300. C = Microcensus2007, respondents over 20 years of age, figures in thousands, n = 68,059,000. d = Microcensus 2008, respondents over 20 years, figures in thousands, n = 82,135,000. e = Microcensus 2007, total population, figures in thousands, n = 82,218,000, no separate evidence for East and West Berlin; Berlin is one of the new federal states
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