TABLE 1. The distribution of single-speaker and multi-speaker families by ethnicity and income.
| Child group | Yearly household income |
Family ethnicity |
Totalc | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American | Caucasian | Otherb | |||
| Single-speaker | Below $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| families | Above $50,000 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Multi-speaker | Below $50,000 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| families | Above $50,000 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| Totald | 6 (22%) | 16 (59%) | 5 (19%) | 27a | |
a
One single-speaker family and one multi-speaker family with incomes below $50,000 did not report ethnicity. These families were excluded from this table.
b
The ‘Other’ category included Asian and Hispanic families, along with one family of mixed ethnicity.
c
The relative proportion of single-speaker and multi-speaker families in low- versus high-income groups was roughly equal : the majority of single-speaker (54%) and multi-speaker (64%) families had high income.
d
The relative proportion of single-speaker and multi-speaker families within each ethnicity was roughly equal: the majority of the single-speaker (62%) and multi-speaker (57%) families were Caucasian.