TABLE 1.

Descriptive Statistics Comparing Youth Who Have Been in Foster Care With General Population Youth

Parameter	Female Participants		Male Participants
	Foster Youth (N = 191)a	General Population Youth (N = 7372)a	Foster Youth (N = 125)a	General Population Youth (N = 6634)a
Age, mean (SE)	15.9 (0.3)	15.9 (0.1)	16.2 (0.2)	16.0 (0.1)
Race, %b
White	69.1	72.6	58.5	71.7c
Black	21.2	16.4	25.4	15.8
Native American	2.1	1.3	8.5	1.3d
Asian	4.3	3.6	3.4	4.2
Other	3.4	6.2	4.2	7.0
Hispanic ethnicity, %e	12.3	11.5	8.3	12.3
Parental income, mean (SE), $1000s	29 (3)	46 (2)d	23 (3)	45 (2)d
Parental education, % complete
Did not complete high school	25.3	17.0c	24.7	16.4
High school diploma or GED	37.4	32.5	32.2	31.1
Some college	24.9	28.2	25.7	29.7
College degree	12.4	22.4f	17.4	22.7
Neighborhood household income,   mean (SE), $1000sb	27 (2)	31 (1)	23 (2)	31 (1)d

^aNs vary slightly between imputed data sets because the foster care question was imputed, and Ns presented reflect the average of all data sets.

^bN = 7357 for female general population participants 6626 for male general population participants and 124 for male foster care participants due to exclusion from imputation.

^cP < .10.

^dP < .001.

^eN = 7346 for female general population participants and 6620 for male general population participants due to exclusion from imputation.

^fP < .05.