TABLE 1.

Weighted Descriptive Characteristics of L.A. FANS and PSID-CDS Samples

	White	Black	Latino	Asian	Other	Total
L.A. FANS (N=2,112)
Race/Ethnic Composition	26	11	53	10		100
Mean Education of Caregiver (Years)	14.9	13.6	10	15.6		12.2
Median Family Income	65,411	33,300	27,000	58,350		35,000
Mean Neighborhood Poverty	12.1	22.7	23.4	12.7		19.9
Mean Child Age	9.8	9.6	9.2	10		9.4
Caregiver Married	81	28	64	85		67
Mean Number of Children in Household	2.2	2.7	2.8	2		2.6
Caregiver Foreign-Born	22	8	81	86		38
Moved at Least Once	17	33	28	18		25
Mean # of Internalizing Behaviors (Range 0–22)	2	2.5	3.5	2.4		2.9
Mean # of Externalizing Behaviors (Range 0–33)	6	6.5	6.7	5.1		6.3
Mean General Health Status (Range 1–5)	1.4	1.9	2.0	1.4		1.8
Mean Applied Problems Standardized Score	110.8	100.2	97.6	111.5		102.7
PSID-CDS 2002 (N=2,865)
Race/Ethnic Composition	64	16			21	101
Mean Education of Caregiver (Years)	13.7	12.4			10.7	12.9
Median Family Income	68,000	29,500			33,000	54,567
Mean Neighborhood Poverty	9.1	21.8			20.4	13.4
Mean Child Age	11	11.5			10.9	11.1
Caregiver Married	82	37			73	73
Mean Number of Children in Household	2.2	2.4			2.8	2.4
Moved at Least Once in Two-Year Period	31	34			22	29
Mean # of Internalizing Behaviors (Range 0–14)	3.2	3.2			3.9	3.3
Mean # of Externalizing Behaviors (Range 0–17)	5.5	6.2			5.6	5.6
Mean General Health Status (Range 1–5)	1.5	1.8			1.8	1.6
Mean Applied Problems Standardized Score	109.1	95.1			99.9	105.8

^*Unless row is specified to be the mean, numbers are percentages.