Table 1 Demographic information

Number of children

1810

1261

549

Percentage of females

48.9%

49%

49%

Mean age (months)

63.42 ± 7.36

63.52 ± 7.39

63.18 ± 7.29

SES

39.34 ± 14.15

43.65 ± 12.44

29.43 ± 12.80

Background

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Italian speaking families

Heritage language speaking families

Parents born in another country

-

-

One parent: 29.3%, Both parents: 59.4%

Both parents born in Italy

-

-

11.3%

Main languages spoken

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-

Arabic: 18.6%, Romanian: 18.2%, Pidgin English: 8.6%, Albanian: 7.8%, Bengali: 7.3%, Spanish: 7.3%, Urdu: 5.8%, Russian: 4.4%, African French: 2.2%, Tagalog: 3.3%, Chinese: 1.8%, Portuguese: 1.6%, Ukrainian: 1.5%, Sinhali: 1.4%, Greek: 1.3%, Polish: 1.3%, Others: 7.6% (all < 1%, e.g., Serbian, Tamil, Bulgarian, Somali, etc.)