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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2012 Dec 8;16(2):234–248. doi: 10.1111/desc.12019

Table 1.

Demographic information on population, median income, cost-of-living index, and poverty rate in the two research sites

Site 1 Site 2
Total populationa 90,200 90,500
% non-Hispanic whitea 66% 83%
Median per capita incomea $69,000 $23,900
Cost-of-living indexb 157.9 92.9
% children living below federal poverty levela,c 5.3% 22.9%
a

U.S. Census 2010 for the catchment area from which participants are recruited

b

Cost-of-living index as compared to U.S. average of 100 (Source: city-data.com)

c

2010 Federal poverty level = $22,050 for family of four (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)