Table 6.
Interaction of race and STD results for male youth: means (unweighted sample, standard errors in parentheses)
| Non-African-American, STD negative (n = 212) | Non-African-American, STD positive (n = 10) | African-American, STD negative (n = 219) | African-American, STD positive (n = 42) | F-ratio (df = 1,479)a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual-level variables | |||||
| Age | 15.68 (0.10) | 16.40 (0.56) | 15.20 (0.01) | 16.07 (0.17) | 0.09 |
| Current charge level | 1.34 (0.03) | 1.60 (0.16) | 1.43 (0.03) | 1.69 (0.07) | 0.00 |
| Marijuana test result | 0.44 (0.03) | 0.50 (0.17) | 0.40 (0.03) | 0.52 (0.08) | 0.11 |
| Cocaine test result | 0.08 (0.02) | 0.10 (0.10) | 0.04 (0.01) | 0.07 (0.04) | 0.03 |
| Number of prior arrests | 1.87 (0.21) | 3.10 (1.02) | 2.97 (0.24) | 4.67 (0.74) | 0.13 |
| Age at first arrest | 14.33 (0.14) | 13.50 (0.56) | 13.50 (0.15) | 13.43 (0.38) | 0.95 |
| Days in secure custody | 35.79 (7.67) | 32.00 (23.10) | 26.76 (5.34) | 91.36 (29.32) | 2.38 |
| Community-level variables | |||||
| Concentrated disadvantage | −0.07 (0.07) | −0.46 (0.30) | −0.08 (0.07) | 0.23 (0.14) | 4.05** |
| Ethnic heterogeneity | 0.39 (0.01) | 0.33 (0.06) | 0.37 (0.01) | 0.39 (0.03) | 1.21 |
| Hispanic | 0.17 (0.01) | 0.13 (0.04) | 0.17 (0.01) | 0.18 (0.03) | 0.68 |
| Youth 12 to 18 | 0.34 (0.00) | 0.34 (0.01) | 0.34 (0.00) | 0.34 (0.01) | 0.00 |
| Divorced | 0.13 (0.00) | 0.16 (0.01) | 0.13 (0.00) | 0.13 (0.01) | 5.76** |
| Less than high school | 0.26 (0.01) | 0.25 (0.04) | 0.29 (0.01) | 0.31 (0.02) | 0.33 |
| Residential stability | 0.48 (0.01) | 0.50 (0.04) | 0.48 (0.01) | 0.49 (0.02) | 0.21 |
| Urban | −0.19 (0.03) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.27 (0.04) | −0.14 (0.07) | 0.12 |
| Overall F(df = 15,465) =2.23*** | |||||
Notes: Significance Levels:
*
0.10> P> 0.05;
**
P < 0.05;
***
P <0.01;
****
P <0.001.
a
Adjusted for any relationships with race and STD test results.
Abbreviation: STD, sexually transmitted disease.