Table 1.
Areas of expense for families with children with ASD addressed in the questionnaire.
Table 2.
Questions 51 and 52 and the coding of responses used to estimate proportions of FTE reductions.
Table 3.
Division of children receiving ‘immediate’ (N = 250) versus ‘delayed’ (N = 266) diagnoses.
Table 4.
Characteristics of the children with ASD and their families.
Table 5.
Descriptive statistics for all estimated cost variables (rounded to nearest dollar) and cumulative presence of ASD symptomatology.
Table 6.
Regression model of symptom frequency and delay from first identifying a problem to ultimate diagnosis and the total cost including covariates.
Figure 1.
Breakdown of the non-respondent sample for the purposes of the short-form telephone questionnaire.
A full representation of a random sample of families registered as having received or currently receiving service provision for the purposes of an analysis of non-respondents. From a random sample of 405 families, 146 families (totalling 171 children with ASD) agreed to participate in the telephone questionnaire
Table 7.
Comparison between respondents (N = 521) and non-respondents (N = 171) on demographics and two main study variables that can be derived from the short-form telephone questionnaire.