Table 8.
Descriptive statistics for the data used in the logistic regression analysis of the fluidity of racial classification
| ROOM | Add Health Wave-I | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||||
| African Americans |
European Americans |
African Americans |
African Americans |
European Americans |
European Americans |
|
| Southern States (%) | 90.3 | 90.8 | 72.2 | 77.8 | 29.4 | 30.02 |
| Racial Composition in Neighborhood (%) |
– – | – – | ||||
| Completely or mostly nonwhite |
38.9 | 2.7 | – – | – – | ||
| Half nonwhite | 20.1 | 6.7 | – – | – – | ||
| Mostly white | 35.6 | 62.5 | – – | – – | ||
| Completely white | 5.5 | 28.1 | – – | – – | ||
| Black Neighborhood (%) | – – | – – | 53.1 | 53.5 | ||
| White Neighborhood (%) | – – | – – | 97.0 | 97.15 | ||
| % Same-Race Friends | – – | – – | ||||
| 0 % to 50 % | 31.3 | 6.6 | – – | – – | ||
| 51 % to 75 % | 19.8 | 26.9 | – – | – – | ||
| 76 % to 100 % | 48.9 | 66.5 | – – | – – | ||
| Racial Heterogeneity of Respondent’s Friend Network (%) |
0.27 | 0.21 | ||||
| African Ancestry (%) | 88.0 | 91.2 | 90.8 | |||
| European Ancestry (%) | 98.3 | 96.5 | 97.3 | |||
| Age | 19.4 | 19.5 | 15.9 | 16.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Male (%) | 29.5 | 41.3 | 47.4 | 44.01 | 47.8 | 48.68 |
| Sample Size | 328 | 1,311 | 383 | 284 | 1,311 | 946 |