Table 1.
Descriptive statistics by race
| Variables | Full sample |
White | Black | Hisp. | Other | Full sample |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | Mean | Mean | Mean | Min. | Max. | |
| Smoking | .201 | .400 | .222 | .091 | .123 | .193 | 0 | 1 |
| Sex: Female | .519 | .500 | .512 | .579 | .528 | .491 | 0 | 1 |
| Parents’ education | 13.4 | 2.45 | 13.6 | 12.8 | 11.6 | 13.5 | 7 | 18 |
| Lives with both parents | .751 | .433 | .796 | .470 | .682 | .735 | 0 | 1 |
| Size of community | 3.58 | 1.37 | 3.44 | 4.04 | 4.18 | 3.95 | 1 | 6 |
| Academic performance | .00 | .998 | .055 | −.198 | −.322 | −.037 | −4.93 | 2.54 |
| Own income | 4.87 | 3.82 | 4.84 | 5.13 | 4.87 | 4.69 | 0 | 26.9 |
| Religiosity | 2.77 | .934 | 2.71 | 3.82 | 2.86 | 2.64 | 1 | 4 |
| Frequency goes out | 3.53 | 1.33 | 3.61 | 3.22 | 3.27 | 3.26 | 1 | 6 |
N: full sample = 331,696, white = 254,184, black = 37,954, Hispanic = 19,829, other = 19,729