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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2012 Jan 13;35(2):280–294. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.12.003

Table 5.

Percent of Infants by Risk Category in the US and South American Samples Age (in Months) Risk Category

Age (in Months) Risk Category US (%) South American
(%)
χ 2
3 a Low 58 78
Moderate 31 20 p<0.001
High 11 2
6 Low 54 44
Moderate 31 46 p<0.039
High 15 10
9 Low 58 51
Moderate 31 42 p<0.187
High 11 7
12 Low 39 49
Moderate 51 49 p<0.015
High 10 2
18 Low 48 51
Moderate 43 47 p<0.121
High 9 2
24 Low 59 70
Moderate 31 25 p<0.203
High 10 5
a

South American distribution involved interpolating data for infants aged 2.5 to 3.0 month olds and combining that distribution with the observed distribution for 3.0 to 3.5 month olds.