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Table 3 Summary of students’ responses using categories described in Table 2

From: Self-reported motivation for choosing nursing studies: a self-determination theory perspective

Code	n _i	n_i/N	Age_i	F_i/n_i
HEL	78	.59	20.7	.64
JOB	44	.33	22.9	.48
ROL	31	.23	21.6	.68
SCH	27	.20	23.0	.59
TOP	27	.20	21.1	.78
VOC	25	.19	22.4	.72
EXP	23	.17	21.2	.70
MIR	21	.16	21.3	.71
HUM	19	.14	19.7	.68
USE	18	.14	20.4	.78
FAM	11	.08	21.7	.55
PRA	10	.08	19.7	.70
REC	9	.07	23.1	.56
TAR	9	.07	20.6	.78
GRA	9	.07	20.6	.67
SMI	7	.05	19.3	1.0
CUR	4	.03	24.5	.25
MIS	3	.02	20.7	.67

In columns: n_i, absolute frequency of each category; n_i/N (N=133 sample size), relative frequency of each category; Age_i, mean age for each category, 21.7 (SD =4.3) mean (SD) age of sample; F_i/n_i, females for category (females in the sample 63%).

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