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Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2009 Dec 1;31(12):1272–1282. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.05.014

Table 3.

Logistic Regressions Predicting Sexual Activity by Gender and Race

Sexual Activity
	Logistic Odds Ratios

	Boys (n=470)	Girls (n=514)	African Americans (n=412)	Hispanics (n=470)
Adolescent Demographics
Age(older omitted)	.19^***	.29^***	.22^***	.20^***
City (Chicago omitted)^A
Boston^B	1.26	.99	.83	1.41
San Antonio^C	1.91^*	1.50	1.70	2.05^*
Female (males omitted)			.37^***	.65
Race
African American (omitted)
White	.35^*	.33^*
Hispanic	.49^**	.81
Familial Demographics
Family Structure
Stable Single (omitted)
Stable Two-Parent	2.55^*	2.53	2.30	2.81^*
Stable Separated	1.50	3.18^***	1.60	2.36^*
Into Union	1.11	3.17^**	1.86	1.36
Out of Union	.29	.84	.38	.86
Maternal Education
Less than HS (omitted)
HS/GED	1.00	1.03	1.41	.81
Tech or Higher	.44	.23	.33^*	.84
Increased Education	.89	.46	.77	.52
HS or greater
Welfare Status
Stable off Welfare (omitted)
Stable on Welfare	1.56	1.19	1.34	1.26
Trans on Welfare	2.25	2.27	3.19	2.22
Trans off Welfare	1.59	1.27	.91	2.74^**
Income	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Family Processes
Family Routines	.91	.94	.96	.85
Father Involvement	.87	.67^*	.91	.66^*
Mother-Child	1.58	.73	1.39	.79
Relationship
Parental Monitoring	.37	.45	.31	.30
Father-Child Trust & Communication	.98	.89	.82	1.09
Father Child Anger & Alienation	1.01	1.10	.87	1.14
Individual Attributes
Academic Achievement	.86	.82	.81	.85
Academic Aspirations	1.09	1.10	1.12	1.12
Delinquency	3.15^**	5.21^***	2.72^*	4.60^***

LR Chi-Square	121.92^***	111.36^***	106.46^***	113.69^***
Pseudo R²	.21	.21	.21	.22

^***

Notes: p < .001;

^**

p < .01;

p < .05.