Table 3. Proportions and Mean Values of Baseline Characteristics for Full Analytic Sample and by Treatment Status.

Baseline characteristic	Full sample	Experimental group	Control group
Parent demographics
Age	26.62 (5.56)	26.52 (5.51)	26.73 (5.62)
Teenager at time of child's birth	.09	.09	.08
Race
Black	.24	.24	.24
White	.58	.58	.57
Latino	.07	.07	.06
Other	.12	.11	.13
Marital status
Never married	.66	.67	.65
Separated–divorced	.32	.31	.32
Married	.02	.01	.02
Parent education, employment, and income
High school graduate	.56	.57	.55
Employed in year prior to random assignment	.37	.37	.37
Earnings in year prior to random assignment ($1,000)	1.75 (4.33)	1.73 (4.11)	1.76 (4.52)
Years on A FDC prior to random assignment
0–2	.07	.07	.06
2–5	.27	.25	.29
5+	.67	.67	.64
Child and family characteristics
Child's age at random assignment (in years)	2.54 (0.89)	2.56 (0.88)	2.52 (0.89)
Child age at follow-up (in years)	6.34 (1.15)	6.34 (1.14)	6.34 (1.15)
Number of children in family	2.06 (1.11)	2.05 (1.11)	2.06 (1.12)
Child has younger sibling	.21	.21	.21
Age of youngest child in family (in years)	1.85 (1.26)	1.88 (1.29)	1.83 (1.23)
N	7,040	3,671	3,369

Note. Standard deviations of continuous measures are in parentheses. This table reports baseline characteristics for the sample inclusive of all children who had a nonmissing value for any one (or more) of the three outcome measures. Maximum sample sizes are shown; exact sample sizes vary by the amount of missing data in each variable. AFDC = Aid to Families with Dependent Children.