Table 1.
Parental Demographics
Mothers (N = 801) |
Fathers (N = 182) |
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Characteristic | N | % | N | %/SD |
Marital Status | 560a | 118 | ||
Married/cohabitating | 345 | 61.61 | 96 | 81.36 |
Single/divorced/separated /widowed | 215 | 38.39 | 22 | 18.64 |
Employment Status | 540a | 114 | ||
Employed | 364 | 67.41 | 96 | 84.21 |
Unemployed | 34 | 6.30 | 9 | 7.89 |
Homemaker/retired/other | 142 | 26.30 | 9 | 7.89 |
Employment Type | 537a | 114 | ||
Manager/professional | 164 | 30.54 | 62 | 54.39 |
Skilled | 181 | 33.71 | 26 | 22.81 |
Unskilled | 61 | 11.36 | 19 | 16.67 |
Homemaker/disability/other | 131 | 24.39 | 7 | 6.14 |
Education | 481a | 98 | ||
Graduate/professional graduate | 229 | 47.61 | 49 | 50.00 |
College graduate/some college | 118 | 24.53 | 20 | 20.41 |
High school graduate | 72 | 14.97 | 18 | 18.37 |
Some high school or below | 62 | 12.89 | 11 | 11.22 |
Race / Ethnicity | 547a | 121 | ||
Hispanic | 279 | 51.01 | 37 | 30.58 |
Caucasian | 154 | 28.15 | 58 | 47.93 |
African-American | 73 | 13.35 | 15 | 12.40 |
Other | 41 | 7.50 | 11 | 9.09 |
M | SD | M | SD | |
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Age | 38.87 | 7.97 | 42.95 | 8.56 |
Note:
N reflects number of parents who provided this information.