Table A1.
Selected baseline and demographic characteristics by site and research group.
| Atlanta |
Grand Rapids |
Riverside |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Characteristic | Control | LFA | Control | LFA | Control | LFA |
| Parent | ||||||
| Under 18 at child’s birth (%) | 8.60 | 4.49 | 16.31 | 13.89 | 9.26 | 5.71 |
| Race (%) | ||||||
| Black | 95.70 | 94.38 | 42.55 | 40.28 | 22.22 | 14.29† |
| White | 3.23 | 3.93 | 46.81 | 51.39 | 39.35 | 38.10 |
| Latino | 0.54 | 1.12 | 8.51 | 6.94 | 35.65 | 44.76 |
| Other | 0.54 | 0.56 | 2.13 | 1.39 | 2.78 | 2.86 |
| Marital status (%) | ||||||
| Never married | 74.19 | 76.40 | 60.28 | 58.33 | 39.81 | 43.81 |
| Separated/Divorced | 24.19 | 23.03 | 39.01 | 36.11 | 57.87 | 53.33 |
| Married | 1.61 | 0.56 | 0.71 | 5.56* | 2.31 | 2.86 |
| Received high school diploma or GED (%) |
66.67 | 61.24 | 56.03 | 59.72 | 50.93 | 56.19 |
| Employed in year prior to random assignment (%) |
34.95 | 34.27 | 61.70 | 52.78 | 30.56 | 28.57 |
| Earnings in year prior to random assignment ($1,000s) |
1.08 | 1.19 | 2.68 | 2.12 | 1.89 | 1.73 |
| Length of AFDC receipt prior to random assignment (%) |
2.78 | 2.79 | 2.74 | 2.75 | 2.66 | 2.67 |
| No prior AFDC receipt | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.90† |
| Less than 2 years of AFDC receipt |
22.04 | 21.35 | 25.53 | 25.00 | 34.26 | 29.52† |
| 2 or more years of AFDC receipt | 77.96 | 78.65 | 74.47 | 75.00 | 65.74 | 68.57† |
| Child and family | ||||||
| Child is male (%) | 48.39 | 47.75 | 51.77 | 44.44 | 45.37 | 48.57 |
| Child’s age | 4.30 | 4.50* | 4.32 | 4.36 | 4.17 | 4.18 |
| Average age of youngest child | 3.75 | 3.85 | 3.05 | 2.97 | 3.59 | 3.45 |
| Average number of children in family | 2.15 | 2.22 | 2.16 | 2.18 | 2.14 | 2.29 |
| Sample size | 186 | 178 | 141 | 144 | 216 | 105 |
Note: LFA = Labor Force Attachment program. Two-tailed t-tests were applied to differences between the LFA program and control group statistics.
†
p < 0.10
*
p < 0.05
**
p < 0.01.