Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: School Ment Health. 2012 Oct 20;5(2):59–69. doi: 10.1007/s12310-012-9089-6

Table 1.

Sociodemographic composition of the cohort (N = 228)

No. %a
Gender = female 113 50
Living in poverty 196 86
Maternal education
    1. Some elementary 14 6
    2. Completed elementary 70 31
    3. Completed high school or GED 125 55
    4. Completed college 19 8
Single parent 106 47
Primary caregiver
    Biological mother 225 99
    Biological father or grandmother 3 1.3
Spanish is the only or main language spoken at home 228 100
Mother's place of birth
    Dominican Republic 119 52
    Puerto Rico 48 21
    El Salvador, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries 49 22
    United States 12 5b
Mother's lifetime percent resided in the United States
    US-born 12 5
    More than 50 % 72 31
    Less than 50 % 143 64
Mother's undocumented status 60 26
Children exposed to neighborhood violence 45 20
a

Totals may not add to 100 due to rounding

b

Per inclusion criteria, when the mother was US-born, the child's father was born in a Spanish-speaking country