Table 2.
Baseline individual, family, contextual and MA characteristics, overall and by hypersegregation, stratified by race
| Hypersegregated, N = 1388 |
Not hypersegregated, N = 3195 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall, N = 4583* | Black non-Hispanic, N = 647 | White non-Hispanic, N = 741 | p Value† | Black non-Hispanic, N = 1183 | White non-Hispanic, N = 2012 | p Value† | |
| NLSY person-level measures | |||||||
| Age at baseline, mean (SD) | 14.3 (1.5) | 14.3 (1.5) | 14.3 (1.5) | 0.617 | 14.3 (1.5) | 14.2 (1.5) | 0.097 |
| Sex, n (%) | 0.091 | 0.297 | |||||
| Male | 2331 (50.9) | 319 (49.3) | 399 (53.8) | 583 (49.3) | 1030 (51.2) | ||
| Female | 2252 (49.1) | 328 (50.7) | 342 (46.2) | 600 (50.7) | 982 (48.8) | ||
| Paternal education, n (%) | 0.012 | <0.0001 | |||||
| High school or more | 3112 (84.8) | 337 (83.0) | 589 (88.4) | 638 (78.2) | 1548 (87.0) | ||
| Less than high school | 556 (15.2) | 69 (17.0) | 77 (11.6) | 178 (21.8) | 232 (13.0) | ||
| Maternal education, n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| High school or more | 3591 (84.3) | 450 (76.9) | 635 (89.9) | 800 (75.6) | 1706 (89.3) | ||
| Less than high school | 669 (15.7) | 135 (23.1) | 71 (10.1) | 258 (24.4) | 205 (10.7) | ||
| Household income in $10 000, mean (SD) | 5.3 (4.7) | 3.2 (3.1) | 7.6 (6.0) | <0.0001 | 2.9 (2.5) | 6.2 (4.6) | <0.0001 |
| Rooms per people in household, mean (SD) | 1.6 (0.6) | 1.5 (0.7) | 1.8 (0.6) | <0.0001 | 1.4 (0.6) | 1.7 (0.6) | <0.0001 |
| Both biological parents in home (age 2), n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| Yes | 1738 (42.3) | 104 (18.8) | 418 (62.6) | 193 (18.6) | 1023 (56.4) | ||
| No | 2336 (57.3) | 450 (81.2) | 250 (37.4) | 845 (81.4) | 791 (43.6) | ||
| Single-parent household, n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| Yes | 1530 (33.5) | 326 (50.5) | 152 (20.5) | 606 (51.5) | 446 (22.2) | ||
| No | 3043 (66.5) | 320 (49.5) | 588 (79.5) | 571 (48.5) | 1564 (77.8) | ||
| Number of children in home, n (%) | 0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| 2 or fewer | 2829 (61.7) | 355 (54.9) | 482 (65.1) | 654 (55.3) | 1338 (66.5) | ||
| More than 2 | 1754 (38.3) | 292 (45.1) | 259 (34.9) | 529 (44.7) | 674 (33.5) | ||
| Residential location, n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| Urban | 3586 (78.3) | 622 (96.1) | 593 (80.0) | 957 (80.9) | 1414 (70.3) | ||
| Not urban | 997 (21.7) | 25 (3.9) | 148 (20.0) | 226 (19.1) | 598 (29.7) | ||
| Location of residence in MA, n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| Inside central city | 1678 (36.6) | 446 (68.9) | 107 (14.4) | 647 (54.7) | 478 (23.8) | ||
| Outside central city | 2842 (62.0) | 198 (30.6) | 630 (85.0) | 511 (43.2) | 1503 (74.7) | ||
| Unknown | 63 (1.4) | 3 (0.5) | 4 (0.5) | 25 (2.1) | 31 (1.5) | ||
| Census region of residence, n (%) | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||||
| Northeast | 919 (20.0) | 228 (35.2) | 218 (29.4) | 98 (8.3) | 375 (18.6) | ||
| North Central | 1195 (26.1) | 198 (30.6) | 315 (42.5) | 195 (16.5) | 487 (24.2) | ||
| South | 1912 (41.7) | 192 (29.7) | 183 (24.7) | 784 (66.3) | 753 (37.4) | ||
| West | 557 (12.2) | 29 (4.5) | 25 (3.4) | 106 (9.0) | 397 (19.7) | ||
| MA-level measures | |||||||
| Log population size, mean (SD) | 14.2 (1.2) | 15.2 (0.9) | 13.7 (1.0) | ||||
| Population density (people/square mile), mean (SD) | 962.7 (1603.6) | 1906.1 (2350.3) | 552.8 (857.6) | ||||
| Proportion black non-Hispanic, mean (SD) | 0.16 (0.10) | 0.21 (0.05) | 0.14 (0.11) | ||||
| Socioeconomic position index, mean (SD) | –1.4 (3.3) | –2.1 (2.7) | –1.1 (3.6) | ||||
*
N's vary due to missing values.
†
p Values are based on χ2 test for NLSY categorical variables and t test for NLSY continuous variables.
MA, metropolitan area; NLSY, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.