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Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;48(1):35–41. doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e318190045c

TABLE 1.

Demographic Characteristics of the Sample^a

	n	Percent (SE)
Sex
Male	560	52.47 (1.80)
Female	576	47.53 (1.80)
Age, y
8	283	24.01 (1.50)
9	282	24.83 (1.55)
10	281	25.73 (1.39)
11	290	25.44 (1.40)
Race/ethnicity
White	342	62.17 (2.76)
Black	386	14.87 (1.90)
Hispanic/other	408	22.96 (2.51)
Poverty index ratio
Above poverty	739	76.19 (2.01)
Below poverty	353	21.43 (1.95)
Unknown poverty	44	2.38 (0.51)

^a

N = 1,136, representing 12,832,629 U.S. children ages 8 to 11 years.