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Published in final edited form as: J Soc Distress Homeless. 2021 Aug 9;32(1):42–50. doi: 10.1080/10530789.2021.1961990

Table 1.

Sample characteristics by sheltering type.

Characteristics	Total (N=575)	States of homelessness, N (%)
Characteristics	Total (N=575)	Sheltered homeless (n=401)	Unsheltered homeless (n=119)	Unstably housed (n=55)
Sociodemographic Characteristics
Age, M (SD)	43.65 (12.16)	42.64 (12.76)^a	47.42 (9.68)^b	42.82 (11.14)^a,b
Years of education, M (SD)	11.94 (2.04)	12.07 (2.06)^a	11.81(1.97)^a,b	11.31(1.95)^b
Sex
Male	366 (63.7)	248 (61.8)	87 (73.1)	31 (56.4)
Female	209 (36.3)	153 (38.2)	32 (26.9)	24 (43.6)
Race
White	324 (56.3)	244 (60.8)^a	52 (43.7)^b	28 (50.9)^a,b
Other^*	251 (43.7)	157 (39.2)^a	67 (56.3)^b	27 (49.1)^a,b
Incarceration History
Months in jail lifetime, M (SD)	32.73 (60.41)	24.56 (50.54)^a	49.32 (65.78)^b	56.68 (93.51)^b
Incarcerated in jail last year	212 (36.9)	145 (36.2)^a,b	54 (45.8)^a	13 (23.6)^b

Note. N=Sample size, M= Mean, SD= Standard Deviation, Data displayed in this table are based on 570 to 575 subjects, depending on the variable, due to missing data,

Includes African American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian, Latino, More than one race, and Other, Chi-square tests for categorical variables (sex, race, and incarcerated in jail in the past year) or one way ANOVA for continuous variables (age, years of education, and months in jail lifetime) with Fisher’s Least Significant Difference post-hoc test, Means with differing subscripts are significantly different at the p < .05 level.