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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2010 May-Jun;81(3):988–1005. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01447.x

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

Early Childhood Compositesa First Grade Third Grade Fifth Grade
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Maternal Report of Parent Involvement 4.63 0.50 4.62 0.41 4.56 0.49
Teacher Report of Parent Involvement 3.73 0.90 4.22 0.64 3.55 0.92
Income-to-needs ratio 3.48 2.86 3.76 3.00 4.22 3.67 4.38 3.94
Children in the household 2.38 0.95 2.41 0.98 2.48 1.04
Mother married 0.69 0.73 0.73
Maternal employment 23.04 19.13 26.50 19.09 26.84 19.11 27.67 19.03
Teacher experience 12.21 10.77 11.87 10.55 14.50 9.46
Classroom quality 5.32 1.29 5.05 0.78 5.10 0.71
Teacher-reported SSRS 103.14 13.67 102.30 14.51 103.36 14.31
Teacher-reported CBCL 49.91 9.43 51.43 9.71 50.29 9.75
Mother reported SSRS 98.32 13.59 105.07 15.07 105.98 15.95 107.38 15.07
Mother reported CBCL 51.11 9.54 48.52 9.97 47.69 10.40 46.37 10.74
Math 423.87 19.46 469.42 15.67 497.16 12.63 509.77 12.29
Reading 368.70 21.39 452.05 24.06 493.39 18.27 509.88 17.38
Vocabulary 459.21 13.71 483.42 12.28 496.50 11.42 505.52 11.90
Child Male 0.48
Child Black 0.13
Child Hispanic 0.06
Child other ethnicity 0.05
Maternal Age 28.11 5.63
Maternal Education 14.23 2.51
Maternal PPVT score 98.11 18.60
Average HOME scores -0.04 0.87
Middle Childhood Average Family Variables b
Mother married 0.72
Maternal employment 27.00 16.44
Income-to-needs ratio 4.12 3.35
Children in the household 2.42 0.94
Teacher experience 12.86 6.44
Classroom quality 34.43 3.07

Note. N= 1364

a

Data treated as time-invariant

b

Data averaged across 1st, 3rd and 5th grade