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 |
Totals may not add to 100 due to rounding
Per inclusion criteria, when the mother was US-born, the child's father was born in a Spanish-speaking country