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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Behav Health Serv Res. 2008 Jun 6;36(2):199–211. doi: 10.1007/s11414-008-9114-6

Table 1.

Characteristics for the entire sample and the sheltered and housed samples separately

Entire sample
N=590
Sheltered Sample
N=268
Housed
Sample
N= 322
P-Value
Age 0.001
18 – 25 29.4 24.2 32.4
26 – 35 32.5 27.8 35.2
36 – 45 28.6 32.8 26.3
46 – 55 9.3 15.2 6.0
Race/Ethnicity <0.001
African American 64.9 55.6 70.2
Hispanic/Latina 23.9 21.6 25.2
Non-Hispanic White and other 11.2 22.8 4.5
Education <0.001
< high school 26.1 36.9 19.9
= high school 37.0 28.3 41.9
> high school 36.9 34.8 38.2
Income <0.001
$0 – $200 16.6 19.9 14.8
$201 – $499 14.2 26.9 6.9
$500 – $999 32.6 34.4 31.6
$1000+ 36.5 18.7 46.7
Employed (yes) 51.0 41.1 56.6 0.001
Childhood physical abuse (yes) 27.0 45.0 16.7 <0.001
Married (yes) 17.3 13.3 19.6 0.10
Living with partner (yes) 34.0 20.4 41.7 <0.001
Gender primary partner (male) 96.1 95.0 98.0 0.044
Mental health distress (yes) 42.8 62.0 32.0 <0.001
Social support (mean) 4.2 3.9 4.3 <0.001
(SD) (0.05) (0.07) (0.06)
Substance abuse 0.17
No own use, no partner use 43.2 37.4 46.5
Own use, partner use 27.7 29.9 26.4
Own use, no partner use 15.1 18.8 13.0
No own use, partner use 14.0 13.9 14.1
Intimate partner violence (yes) 9.9 18.3 5.1 <0.001
(physical violence)
Sexual violence (yes) 1 2.3 0.3 0.027
Psychological violence (yes) 40.5 46.5 37.2 0.048

Note: all the reported statistics are percentages with the exception of social support (a continuous measure), for which the mean and standard deviation (in parenthesis) are reported.