Authentic Leadership Questionnaire: invariance between samples of Brazilian and Portuguese employees

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Table 1 Socio-demographic characterization of the Brazilian and Portuguese samples

	Brazil (n = 1019)		Portugal (n = 842)
	N	%	N	%
Sex
Male	462	45.3	292	34.7
Female	539	52.9	548	65.1
No response	18	1.8	2	0.2
Age
Under 20 years	22	2.2	21	2.5
Between 21 and 30	347	34.1	234	27.8
Between 31 and 35	226	22.6	82	9.7
Between 36 and 40	105	10.3	97	11.5
Between 41 and 50	192	18.8	267	37.1
Over 51 years	99	9.7	139	16.5
No response	28	2.7	2	0.2
Years in the company
6 months or less	51	5.9	0	0
Between 7 months and 1 year	36	3.5	97	11.5
Between 1 year 1 month and 3 years	272	26.7	89	10.6
Between 3 years 1 month and 5 years	144	14.1	138	16.4
Between 5 years 1 month and 10 years	97	9.5	147	17.5
Over 10 years	397	39	365	43.3
No response	22	2.2	6	0.7
Education
Up to 9 years of education	35	3.4	246	29.2
From 10 to 12 years	160	15.7	281	33.4
From 13 to 17 years	603	59.2	181	21.5
Over 18 years of education	200	19.6	128	15.2
No response	21	2.1	6	0.7
Salary (in euros)
Up to 500	457	44.8	215	25.5
Between 501 and 1000	375	36.8	423	50.2
Between 1001 and 1500	68	6.7	150	17.8
Between 1501 and 2000	94	9.2	34	4
Between 2001 and 2500	4	0.4	10	1.2
Between 2501 and 3000	1	0.1	2	0.2
Between 3001 and 3500	0	0	0	0
Between 3501 and 4000	0	0	0	0
Over 4000	0	0	0	0
No response	20	2.0	8	1