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Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2011 May;48(2):625–651. doi: 10.1007/s13524-011-0024-5

Table 3. LCA group membership probabilities and conditional response probabilities for latent class analysis of intergenerational SES in the longitudinal sample with weights (N = 14,322) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

LCA Groups	Persistent Disadvantage	Disadvantaged Fast Starters	Material Advantage	Educational Advantage	Highest Overall Advantage	Total
Percentage of Sample	18.9% (n = 2,713)	16.0% (n = 2,293)	27.3% (n = 3,913)	13.7% (n = 1,962)	24.0% (n = 3,442)	100% (N = 14,322)
Conditional Response Means and Probabilities
Parental SES
Continuous variable means
Income/thousands	19.7^a	31.1^b	43.5^c	35.4^d	72.8^e	43.0
Hours work/week, mother	27.5^a	29.0^a	31.5^b	36.2^c	31.8^b	31.3
Hours work/week, father	0.63^a	45.2^b	46.2^b	0.70^a	46.2^b	31.1
Binary/categorical variable probabilities
Two-parent household	0.09^a	0.74^b	0.75^b	0.09^a	0.87^c	0.56
Insurance 12 months	0.64^a	0.65^a	0.86^b	0.85^b	0.97^c	0.81
Public assistance	0.67^a	0.31^b	0.17^c	0.27^d	0.06^e	0.27
Social capital	0.27^a	0.29^a	0.50^b	0.61^c	0.79^d	0.51
Mother professional	0.09^a	0.08^a	0.14^b	0.35^c	0.49^d	0.23
Father professional	0.07^a	0.07^a	0.09^b	0.22^c	0.53^d	0.24
Mother's education less than high school	0.36^a	0.58^b	0.00^c	0.04^d	0.02^d	0.17
Mother's education high school graduate	0.58^a	0.35^b	0.92^c	0.66^d	0.40^b	0.60
Mother's education some college	0.06^a	0.07^a	0.08^a	0.30^b	0.58^c	0.23
Father's education less than high school	0.35^a	0.64^b	0.00^c	0.07^d	0.02^e	0.17
Father's education high school graduate	0.58^a	0.22^b	1.00^c	0.61^a	0.24^b	0.45
Father's education some college	0.04^a	0.10^b	0.00^c	0.22^d	0.40^e	0.55
Father's education graduate/professional	0.03^a	0.04^a	0.00^b	0.10^c	0.34^d	0.16
Young Adult SES
Continuous variable means
Income (thousands)	11.4^a	13.9^b	14.6^b	13.8^b	13.1^a	13.4
Years of education	11.6^a	12.1^b	12.9^c	13.8^d	14.6^e	13.0
Binary/categorical variable probabilities
No job	0.38^a	0.29^b	0.25^b	0.26^b	0.33^a	0.30
Manual occupation	0.19^a	0.23^a	0.20^a	0.07^b	0.05^b	0.15
Sales/service occupation	0.36^a	0.35^a	0.38^a	0.41^b	0.35^a	0.37
Managerial occupation	0.07^a	0.13^b	0.17^b	0.26^c	0.27^c	0.18
Ever-married	0.22^a	0.28^b	0.22^a	0.15^c	0.09^d	0.19
Live with parent	0.40^a	0.44^a	0.45^a	0.37^b	0.37^b	0.41
Income from family	0.27^a	0.29^a	0.34^b	0.46^c	0.62^d	0.40
In college (high ed.)	0.09^a	0.17^b	0.30^c	0.50^d	0.64^e	0.35
In vocational school	0.29^a	0.26^a	0.28^a	0.22^b	0.14^c	0.24
Savings account	0.40^a	0.55^b	0.65^c	0.72^d	0.77^d	0.62
Credit card	0.30^a	0.48^b	0.58^c	0.74^d	0.75^d	0.58
Own residence	0.13^a	0.17^b	0.16^b	0.12^a	0.08^c	0.13
Hardship	0.58^a	0.43^b	0.35^c	0.33^c	0.22^d	0.37
Health insurance	0.56^a	0.63^b	0.77^c	0.82^d	0.93^e	0.75
Social capital	0.15^a	0.20^b	0.24^c	0.40^d	0.50^e	0.30

Notes: N = 14,322 is larger than the multivariate modeling sample shown in Tables 1, 4, and 5 because maximum likelihood methods in LCA software permitted retention of full sample with weights, whereas exclusions and listwise deletion of observations with missing values reduced sample size for multivariate models. “Percentage of sample” is based on the summary of modal assignments for each subject derived from their highest posterior probability of group membership.

^a–e

In each row, values with the same alphabetic superscript are not significantly different from each other, but are significantly different from values with different superscripts (p < .05 with Bonferonni correction) based on post hoc t tests of pairwise group differences.