Some differences were found between children of German nationality and those with a non-German nationality: children with migration background had higher rates of impairment in nearly all areas of development, except for pronunciation and rhythm of speech.
German citizens make up 54.9% of the population with migration background (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2012, p. 56ff).
Our subsample reflects the total adult population with respect to age, sex, and geographic region, but persons with migration background are underrepresented (non-German citizenship 4.6% in the sample vs. 8.7% in the total adult population).
We are deeply in need of a school system with longer primary school ages, where the working and academic class is kind of united and the kids with migration background have more time to improve their German skills.
Moreover, our findings indicate that individuals with migration background and individuals with nationalities others than German live on average in closer distances to waters while individuals with no migration background, individuals with German nationality and childless households are surrounded by higher coverages of urban blue.
The findings of elevated rates of suicide attempts in adolescents with migration background is in line with recent work from another German sample [ 10].
Though groups like Aussiedler offspring with typical German names fail to be identified, this procedure captures very large parts of the population with migration background.
This is still so, and it works for the population with migration background.
To address language barriers, the tool was beside German also available in English and Turkish, as there are a high number of patients with migration background, especially from Turkey, in Germany.
Furthermore, a significant IRR of 1.52 comparing children with no migration background with those with migration background was observed.
Contrary to the results for younger girls, female adolescents with migration background were twice as likely to comply with the PA guideline than girls without migration background.
