. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 11.

Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2008 Apr 1;27(2):183–199. doi: 10.1007/s11113-007-9059-0

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Fragile Families Mothers

Variable	Whites	Blacks	Mexican Immigrants	Mexican-Americans
Variable	Mean or % (S.D.)	Mean or % (S.D.)	Mean or % (S.D.)	Mean or % (S.D.)
Dependent Variables
Ever Breastfed Child	67.8%	45.4%^***	86.4%^***	55.9%^***
Breastfeeding Duration¹ (Months)	5.24(4.25)	4.44(3.67)^***	6.13(4.29)^**	3.68(3.49)^***
Background Variables
Age	27.12(6.52)	24.41(5.73)^***	25.91(5.47)^**	23.19(5.02)^***
High School Degree	82.1%	67.5%^***	27.5%^***	55.9%^***
WIC Participation	46.9%	81.1%^***	84.8%^***	80.1%^***
Not Only Child	54.1%	66.1%^***	62.3%^**	60.8%^*
Father Lives In Home	80.8%	46.8%^***	72.8%^**	64.8%^***
Acculturation
Cultural Engagement	5.43(1.62)	5.96(1.74)^***	6.62(1.66)^***	5.94(1.66)^***
Traditional Gender Views	3.88(1.23)	3.98(1.17)^*	5.20(1.24)^***	4.08(1.16)^**
Freq. of Church Attendance	2.52(1.06)	2.68(1.08)^***	3.18(0.95)^***	2.57(1.06)
Interview in Spanish	0%	0%	82.8%^***	2.3%^**

N	934	2,043	302	348

p<.10,

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001, two-tailed tests, denotes significant difference between whites and the other groups.

Given mother began breastfeeding (N=2000).