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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Child Dev. 2010 Nov;19(6):577–593. doi: 10.1002/icd.711

Table 1.

Descriptive data for 253 families

Mean (S.D.) or n (%)
Mother
 Mean (S.D.) age, yrs 27.8 (5.3)
 Mean (S.D.) education completed, yrs 9.9 (3.6)
 Married or living with partner 219 (86.7%)
 Latina 237 (93.7%)
 Serious financial problems in prior 12 months 37 (14.6%)
 Ever homeless 8 (3.2%)
 Depressive symptoms 64 (25.3%)
 Mean (S.D.) cognitive stimulation (StimQ) 18.2 (7.0)
Child—Sociodemographics
 Female 135 (53.4%)
 First born 98 (38.7%)
Child—6-month media exposure
 Total daily duration of media viewed by child (min) 158.6 (122.4)
  Educational/young child oriented content (mins) 23.5 (40.0)
  Other content (non-educational, and older child/adult)(mins) 101.3 (88.2)
  Unknown content (mins) 33.8 (82.0)
 Media exposure at least 60 min/day 222 (87.7%)
 Media verbal interactions present 99 (39.1%)
 Total daily duration of media viewed with interactions present (mins) 28.6 (52.6)
 Child—14-month language
  Mean (S.D.) Total Language Score (PLS-4) 96.7 (8.7)
  Mean (S.D.) Auditory Language Score (PLS-4) 90.4 (9.1)
  Mean (S.D.) Language Expressive Language Score (PLS-4) 103.3 (9.1)