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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Soc Psychol. 2006 Jul 31;32(8):1577–1587. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb02763.x

Table 1. Description of Participating Schools.

Recruitment information sent with principal's letter Recruitment information sent alone


School A B C D E F G
Prior year mobility (%) 18.00 16.20 18.90 16.20 19.50 20.10 6.80
Free- and reduced-price lunches (%) 12.67 18.70 29.04 14.71 27.69 11.11 1.58
Number of letters actually sent 63 75 57 58 79 50 59
Children enrolled in 2 weeks 61.90% (39) 53.33% (40) 36.84% (21) 3.45% (2) 24.05% (19) 18.00% (9) 37.29% (22)
Children enrolled in 4 weeks 1.59% (1) 4.00% (3) 7.02% (4) 15.52% (9) 12.66% (10) 0.00% (0) 8.47% (5)
Children enrolled in 6 weeks 0.00% (0) 6.67% (5) 5.26% (3) 13.79% (8) 3.80% (3) 8.00% (4) 5.08% (3)
Children enrolled in 8 weeks or more 3.17% (2) 0.00% (0) 5.26% (3) 27.59% (16) 20.25% (16) 12.00% (6) 3.39% (2)
Total enrolled 66.67% (42) 64.00% (48) 54.39% (31) 60.34% (35) 60.76% (48) 38.00% (19) 54.24% (32)

Note. The number of children enrolled appears in parentheses following the corresponding percentages.