Table 3.

Weighted Logistic Regression Analyses of Children’s Health Conditions on Latent Classes, Family Background, and Demographic Factors

	Overall health			Asthma			Obesity
Variable	B	SE	OR	B	SE	OR	B	SE	OR
Latent classa
Unhealthy only	1.27*	0.51	3.55	0.34	0.18	1.41	0.93**	0.31	2.53
Low SES only	1.12**	0.42	3.06	0.36*	0.15	1.43	0.75	0.40	2.11
Low coverage/care	0.64	0.55	1.90	−0.24	0.21	0.79	0.29	0.48	1.34
Smokers	0.52	0.67	1.69	0.14	0.24	1.15	−0.21	0.49	0.81
High risk	2.80***	0.38	16.47	0.83***	0.17	2.30	0.66*	0.33	1.93
Number of children in HH	−0.07	0.10	0.93	−0.07	0.05	0.93	−0.17	0.13	0.84
Mother’s age	−0.01	0.02	0.99	−0.00	0.01	1.00	−0.02	0.02	0.98
Child’s age	0.05	0.03	1.05	0.03**	0.01	1.03	−0.14*	0.07	0.87
Child is female	0.06	0.21	1.06	−0.35***	0.11	0.70	−0.81***	0.23	0.45
Mother born in U.S.	0.33	0.32	1.39	0.72***	0.18	2.06	0.23	0.35	1.25
Mother in prof./mgr./skilled tech. occ.	−0.05	0.32	0.96	0.16	0.12	1.18	−0.21	0.26	0.81
Race/ethnicityb
Hispanic	1.12***	0.29	3.06	0.34*	0.15	1.41	0.72*	0.36	2.05
Black	0.90***	0.25	2.47	0.61***	0.13	1.85	0.53	0.31	1.70
Asian	0.55	0.66	1.73	0.11	0.40	1.12	−1.46*	0.68	0.23
Low birth weight (child)	0.52	0.28	1.68	0.34*	0.16	1.41	−0.04	0.41	0.96
Constant	−5.89***			−3.22***			1.15
N	7,360			7,347			1,157

Note: OR = odds ratio; SES = socioeconomic status; HH = household; prof. = professional; mgr. = managerial; tech. occ. = technical occupation.

^aReference category = low risk.

^bReference category = White.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.