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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Criminol Public Policy. 2023 Mar 14;22(3):417–455. doi: 10.1111/1745-9133.12619

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of study variables, 2005–2014

Characteristics Mean (SD)
Dependent variable
 Violent victimization .007 (.074)
County policy variables
 Secure Communities activated .426 (.433)
 287(g) jail enforcement agreement .106 (.273)
 287(g) task force agreement .026 (.140)
 Anti-detainer policy activated .031 (.147)
Control variables
Individual-level variables
 Age 45.330 (16.580)
 Male .488 (.446)
 Latino .135 (.304)
 Black .110 (.280)
 Other nonwhite .055 (.203)
 Divorced .106 (.274)
 Separated .021 (.127)
 Never married .297 (.407)
 Education 13.060 (2.591)
 Employed .626 (.432)
 Household income 10.790 (3.245)
 Homeowner .692 (.412)
 Length of residence 11.550 (11.020)
Neighborhood-level variables
 Population density 7.083 (1.783)
 Central city neighborhood .306 (.411)
 SES disadvantage −.010 (.661)
 % Black 12.090 (17.270)
 % Latino 14.270 (17.950)
 % Asian and Pacific Islander 4.717 (7.040)
 % other race/ethnicity 1.374 (2.760)
 Race entropy .672 (.300)
 % foreign born 11.500 (11.570)
 % ages 18–34 23.090 (8.491)
 % divorced/separated 12.870 (4.077)
 % moved into units <10 years 59.190 (11.850)
 % vacant housing 9.736 (6.958)
County context
 % unemployed 7.269 (2.472)
 Southern border with Mexico .037 (.168)
 Northern border with Canada .031 (.154)
 Traditional immigrant county .329 (.419)
 New immigrant county .372 (.431)
 Police force size 2.009 (.686)
 Police expenditures 152 (75.880)
 South .362 (.429)
 Midwest .245 (.384)
 West .221 (.370)
Survey administration variables
 Survey reference time 5.766 (.822)
 Time in sample 2.748 (1.517)
 Year of interview
 2006 .080 (.241)
 2007 .077 (.238)
 2008 .108 (.276)
 2009 .108 (.277)
 2010 .109 (.277)
 2011 .109 (.278)
 2012 .113 (.282)
 2013 .113 (.283)
 2014 .114 (.283)

Number of persons 354,000
Number of person-interviews 1,006,000

Note. SD = standard deviation. The summary statistics were weighted to represent the U.S. population.