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Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2013 Oct;50(5):10.1007/s13524-013-0219-z. doi: 10.1007/s13524-013-0219-z

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for time-varying covariates in analyses of neighborhood effects on adolescent parenthood, Panel Study of Income Dynamicsa

Variable Blacks (N=2669)
Nonblacks (N=3573)
Age 4 Age 12 Age 4 Age 12
FU head’s marital status, %
 Unmarried 41.06 48.71 9.57 14.50
 Married 58.94 51.29 90.43 85.50
FU head’s employment status %
 Unemployed 33.01 33.08 8.40 9.71
 Employed 66.99 66.92 91.60 90.29
Public assistance receipt, %
 Did not receive AFDC 76.47 78.16 95.27 95.83
 Received AFDC 23.53 21.84 4.73 4.17
Homeownership, %
 Did not own home 67.33 55.11 32.69 21.75
 Owned home 32.67 44.89 67.31 78.25
FU income in $1000s, mean 15.70 17.13 30.13 37.10
FU head’s work hours, mean 27.58 27.30 41.46 40.26
FU size, mean 5.32 5.10 4.63 4.69
Cum. residential moves, mean 0.28 1.67 0.24 1.32
a

Statistics reported for subjects who were not lost to follow-up before age 12.

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