Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for Analysis 1 (Table 3) by mother’s marital status at adolescent’s birth and race (total n for all groups = 2,033)
| Born to a never-married non- cohabiting mother |
Born to a never-married cohabiting mother |
Born to a married mother | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Total | White | Black | Total | White | Black | Total | |
| Dependent variables | |||||||||
| Depressive symptoms (logged) | 1.610 (0.614) | 1.522 (0.753) | 1.536 (0.739) | 1.569 (0.771) | 1.529 (0.703) | 1.542 (0.740) | 1.452 (0.716) | 1.529 (0.713) | 1.466 (0.721) |
| Self-Assessed Health (5-category) | 3.956 (0.909) | 3.901 (1.016) | 3.910 (1.005) | 3.796 (0.935) | 3.889 (0.992) | 3.859 (0.976) | 4.064 (0.846) | 4.038 (0.960) | 4.059 (0.865) |
| Fair or Poor Health | 7.5% | 9.9% | 9.5% | 9.7% | 7.9% | 8.5% | 4.3% | 4.6% | 4.4% |
| Control variables | |||||||||
| Age | |||||||||
| 14–15# | 55.1% | 53.4% | 53.2% | 68.7% | 70.1% | 69.8% | 72.3% | 69.1% | 71.7% |
| 16 | 28.4% | 26.3% | 26.6% | 19.4% | 21.1% | 20.5% | 19.5% | 20.0% | 19.6% |
| 17 | 9.0% | 10.2% | 10.0% | 6.5% | 4.2% | 5.0% | 3.5% | 6.3% | 4.0% |
| 18 | 7.5% | 10.1% | 10.2% | 5.4% | 4.6% | 4.7% | 4.7% | 4.6% | 4.7% |
| Mother’s age at R’s birth | 19.731 (3.438) | 19.302 (3.236) | 19.371 (3.283) | 21.247 (4.031) | 20.363 (3.267) | 20.654 (3.550) | 23.514 (3.970) | 22.771 (3.873) | 23.376 (3.965) |
| Sex of adolescent R | |||||||||
| Female | 49.3% | 50.8% | 50.6% | 49.5% | 49.5% | 49.5% | 48.2% | 50.8% | 48.7% |
| Male# | 50.7% | 49.2% | 49.4% | 50.5% | 50.5% | 50.5% | 52.8% | 49.2% | 51.3% |
| Maternal grandmother’s education (years) | 10.546 (2.333) | 10.294 (2.653) | 10.334 (2.688) | 10.839 (2.314) | 10.652 (2.412) | 10.713 (2.406) | 11.732 (2.376) | 10.904 (2.618) | 11.579 (2.415) |
| Mother had intact biological family | |||||||||
| Yes | 65.7% | 42.1% | 45.8% | 61.3% | 45.3% | 50.5% | 79.2% | 57.1% | 75.1% |
| No# | 34.3% | 57.9% | 54.2% | 38.7% | 54.7% | 49.5% | 20.8% | 42.9% | 24.9% |
| Mother’s poverty status (1979) | |||||||||
| Yes | 26.0% | 56.9% | 52.0% | 21.5% | 53.8% | 43.2% | 8.4% | 34.3% | 13.0% |
| No# | 74.0% | 43.1% | 48.0% | 78.5% | 46.2% | 56.8% | 91.6% | 65.7% | 87.0% |
| Mother’s cognitive ability (AFQT) 1980 | 33.123 (25.743) | 17.572 (16.256) | 22.047 (18.938) | 37.026 (24.533) | 19.474 (17.840) | 25.242 (21.155) | 52.579 (25.025) | 26.564 (20.821) | 47.803 (26.310) |
| n | 67 | 354 | 421 | 93 | 190 | 283 | 1059 | 240 | 1299 |
Notes: Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) shown for continuous variables; Percentages shown for categorical variables;
#
Omitted reference category