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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Indic Res. 2011 Jul;4(3):389–411. doi: 10.1007/s12187-010-9090-2

Table 2.

Weighted bivariate analyses of extended households and child outcomes

Cognitive
behavior
Mean SE Mean SE
White
 Nuclear household 52.98 0.22 0.20 0.02
 Coresident grandparent(s) only 50.69 0.65a 0.10 0.07
 Coresident other adult(s) only 47.95 1.08ab 0.02 0.12
 Coresident grandparent(s) and other(s) 49.78 1.44a −0.26 0.15ab
African American
 Nuclear household 47.31 0.41 0.05 0.04
 Coresident grandparent(s) only 49.57 0.77a 0.06 0.08
 Coresident other adult(s) only 45.99 0.98b −0.05 0.13
 Coresident grandparent(s) and other(s) 44.19 0.86ab −0.16 0.11
Latino
 Nuclear household 46.73 0.36 0.00 0.04
 Coresident grandparent(s) only 46.85 0.70 −0.12 0.10
 Coresident other adult(s) only 44.63 0.59ab −0.01 0.07
 Coresident grandparent(s) and other(s) 46.53 1.05 −0.04 0.10

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, 2001, 9-month wave for household structure and 2-year wave for cognitive and behavior scores. N≈8,450 cognitive, N≈8,300 behavior. SE standard error. Analyses include probability and replication weights

No means were significantly different from other adult(s) only at p<.05

a

Different from nuclear household at p<.05,

b

Different from grandparent(s) only at p<.05