Table 1.
Demographics, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N=1815)
| Total Sample |
Boys (N=959) |
Girls (N=856) |
p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Child Active Asthma at age 3 | 181 | 10.0 | 110 | 11.5 | 71 | 8.3 | .024 |
| Child relative weight at age 3 | .186 | ||||||
| Normal weight (5th ≤BMIp <85th) | 1163 | 64.1 | 630 | 65.7 | 533 | 62.3 | |
| Overweight (85th ≤BMIp <95th) | 338 | 18.6 | 164 | 17.1 | 174 | 20.3 | |
| Obese (BMIp≥95th) | 314 | 17.3 | 165 | 17.2 | 149 | 17.4 | |
| Socio-demographic Factors | |||||||
| Race/Ethnicity | .699 | ||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 343 | 18.9 | 170 | 17.7 | 173 | 20.2 | |
| African-American, non-Hispanic | 993 | 54.7 | 532 | 55.5 | 461 | 53.9 | |
| Hispanic, any race, non-Mexican | 166 | 9.15 | 92 | 9.6 | 74 | 8.6 | |
| Hispanic, any race, Mexican | 252 | 13.9 | 132 | 13.8 | 120 | 14.0 | |
| Other | 61 | 3.4 | 33 | 3.4 | 28 | 3.3 | |
| Parents married | 501 | 27.6 | 254 | 26.5 | 247 | 28.9 | .260 |
| Family on public assistance | 520 | 28.7 | 299 | 31.2 | 221 | 25.8 | .010 |
| Maternal Education | .401 | ||||||
| Some college | 532 | 29.3 | 282 | 29.4 | 250 | 29.2 | |
| High School Education | 578 | 31.9 | 317 | 33.1 | 261 | 30.5 | |
| Less than high school education | 705 | 38.8 | 360 | 37.5 | 345 | 40.3 | |
| Child enrolled in daycare | 559 | 30.8 | 301 | 31.4 | 258 | 30.1 | .567 |
| Low birth weight | 165 | 9.1 | 88 | 9.2 | 77 | 9.0 | .894 |
| Home Social Environment | |||||||
| Maternal depression (probable) | |||||||
| No maternal depression | 1393 | 76.7 | 731 | 76.2 | 662 | 77.3 | .854 |
| Depression at 12 or 36 months | 318 | 17.5 | 172 | 17.9 | 146 | 17.1 | |
| Depression at both 12 and 36 months | 104 | 5.7 | 56 | 5.8 | 48 | 5.6 | |
| Intimate partner violence (IPV) | |||||||
| No IPV | 1489 | 82.0 | 785 | 81.9 | 704 | 82.2 | .900 |
| IPV prior to 12 months | 71 | 3.9 | 41 | 4.3 | 30 | 3.5 | |
| IPV between 12 and 36 months | 101 | 5.6 | 56 | 5.8 | 45 | 5.3 | |
| IPV chronic | 154 | 8.5 | 77 | 8.0 | 77 | 9.0 | |
| Child neglect | 204 | 11.2 | 112 | 11.7 | 92 | 10.8 | .531 |
| Home Physical Environment | |||||||
| Housing deterioration | 266 | 14.7 | 144 | 15.0 | 122 | 14.3 | .646 |
| Housing disarray | 829 | 45.7 | 445 | 46.4 | 384 | 44.9 | .510 |
| Tobacco Exposure | |||||||
| No in-utero or postnatal tobacco exposure | 1020 | 56.2 | 544 | 56.8 | 475 | 55.5 | .308 |
| In utero and Post-natal Tobacco Smoke Exposure | 363 | 20.0 | 179 | 18.7 | 184 | 21.5 | |
| Post-natal Second Hand Smoke only | 432 | 23.8 | 235 | 24.5 | 197 | 23.0 | |
*
p values are based on Chi square tests between sex and covariates