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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2007 Apr 1;29(4):518–544. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.10.006

Table 6.

Summary of χ2 tests of the association between ethnicity/race and services across two years

PA
AZ
Effect direction
Juvenile
(N=)
Adult
(N=)
Juvenile
(N=)
Adult
(N=)
Residential setting
1. Drug and alcohol treatment unit 13.59** NC 2.48 0.63 Fewer African American
2. Psychiatric hospital or unit 8.22* NC 2.55 1.27 Fewer African American
3. Shelter 1.44 0.46 4.18 0.58
4. Detention 0.25 0.23 3.64 3.21
5. Jail/prison 2.50 0.70 7.31* 9.31* Fewer Caucasian
6. YDC/ADJC 2.61 NC 3.52 1.46
7. Contracted residential-mental health 5.05 NC 1.63 1.92
8. Contract residential 5.80 0.71 032 10.47** Fewer Hispanic
Community-based treatment type
1. Individual 6.66* 0.46 7.34* 4.21 PA: fewer African American
AZ: more then expected
African American
2. School-based 5.10 NC 2.06 3.22
3. Group 1.87 NC 7.18* 17.96*** More Caucasian
4. Partial 0.02 0.23 2.60 6.52
5. In-home 1.52 NC 2.30 4.58
6. Case manager 6.61* 0.46 10.75** 2.64 PA: African American
AZ: Hispanic
7. Vocational 0.04 0.23 0.15 0.58

NC = not calculated because no participants in the adult system were in this setting.

*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001.