It response to the research questions: What are territorial differences in content and volume of special education at national level?
However, this was not the case in the comparison with the volume of vocational education (in terms of teacher positions) in these areas.
The other large city areas were under-represented in the initiative compared to the volume of vocational education, but not compared to the total population.
The results showed that the differences in participation did not correspond to the volumes of the areas; the area with the most participants was not the area with the highest volume of vocational education teachers in upper secondary schools.
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To meaningfully compare the CPD initiative participation rates of vocational teachers from these different regions, it is important to consider the size of the four groups in terms of both the number of inhabitants and the volume of vocational education.
The most obvious pattern was that the high-population municipalities were over-represented in regard to participation in the initiative compared to their total population and to the volume of vocational education.
Therefore, the distribution of the total population (inhabitants) across these groups of municipalities (data from Statistics Sweden 2014) and the distribution of the population of vocational teachers (full-time equivalents in upper secondary school, as a measure of the volume of vocational education) were used for comparisons.
A univariate general linear model was used to analyse differences in tissue volume between type 2 diabetes and control participants adjusting for age, sex, intracranial volume and level of education.
Across the whole population, age was significantly associated with reduced grey matter and total brain volumes and larger lateral ventricle, CSF, total CSF and WML volumes (p < 0.001; F > 20.424; adjusted for diabetic status, sex, intracranial volume and level of education).
