Table 1.
Descriptive statistics by parental health status (n = 13,556).
| Healthy Parent |
Unhealthy Parent |
pr. < | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Respondent education | |||
| Less than high school | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.000 |
| High school only | 0.16 | 0.23 | |
| Some college | 0.44 | 0.46 | |
| College+ | 0.34 | 0.18 | |
| Age of parent | 41.66 (6.30) |
43.68 (8.43) |
0.040 |
| Total number children in HH | 2.54 (1.34) |
2.68 (1.66) |
0.027 |
| Single parent household | 0.27 | 0.42 | 0.000 |
| Male respondent | 0.48 | 0.45 | 0.007 |
| Age of respondent (Wave 4) | 28.35 (1.77) |
28.59 (1.73) |
0.713 |
| Respondent race/ethnicity | |||
| NH white | 0.59 | 0.43 | 0.000 |
| NH black | 0.20 | 0.27 | |
| Hispanic | 0.14 | 0.24 | |
| Other race/ethnicity | 0.07 | 0.06 | |
| GPA | 2.66 (.81) |
2.36 (.82) |
0.000 |
| Time spent with parents | 3.97 (2.03) |
3.67 (2.03) |
0.000 |
| Respondent poor physical health | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.000 |
| Respondent mental health | 0.76 (.56) |
0.81 (.64) |
0.026 |
| Parent smokes in HH | 0.27 | 0.37 | 0.000 |
| Parent obese in HH | 0.18 | 0.25 | 0.000 |
| Parental education | |||
| Less than high school | 0.14 | 0.38 | 0.000 |
| High school only | 0.30 | 0.29 | |
| Some college | 0.31 | 0.24 | |
| College + | 0.26 | 0.09 | |
| Household income (ln) | 3.63 (.80) |
3.03 (.91) |
0.000 |
| N | 11,629 | 1,927 |
Note: all data come from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Harris 2003). Two-tailed t-tests are used to compare the distribution of each variable by parental health status. Chi-square test of independence is used for multinomial variables such as race and respondent education.