Table 16
Children's cognitive skills at ages 4 and 5, by maternal age group
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Overall | Maternal Age Group | |||||||||||
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Teenaged (younger than 20) | Young (20 to 24) | Reference (25 to 29) | Middle (30 to 34) | Older (35 or older) | ||||||||
Mean | Standard error | Mean | Standard error | Mean | Standard error | Mean | Standard error | Mean | Standard error | Mean | Standard error | |
1. p < .05. 2. p < .01. 3. p < .001. Note: Comparisons by maternal age are made against children of reference mothers. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, "The Children of Older First-time Mothers in Canada: Their Health and Development", Children and Youth Research Paper Series, Catalogue number 89-599-M. |
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Receptive vocabulary (n=1,554) | 103.3 | 0.6 | 100.82 | 1.4 | 98.53 | 1.0 | 105.4 | 0.8 | 104.8 | 1.2 | 106.2 | 2.4 |
Number knowledge (n=1,558) | 98.6 | 0.6 | 91.53 | 1.6 | 96.03 | 1.2 | 100.8 | 0.9 | 100.3 | 1.2 | 98.4 | 1.8 |
Copying & symbol use (n=1,406) | 100.5 | 0.7 | 92.83 | 2.1 | 97.83 | 1.4 | 104.3 | 1.0 | 100.11 | 1.5 | 99.9 | 2.2 |
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