Figure 2. Adjusted odds ratios of cognitive delay at nine-months of age by exposure to social risk, national estimates from the 2001 ECLS-B.
Figure 2 presents adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for cognitive delay at nine-months of age associated with exposure to social risk, adjusted for child gender and plurality. The reference category for all estimates is zero risk factors. Social risk factors include: family income below 100% of the Federal poverty level, single-parent household status, maternal black (non-Hispanic) race, maternal education less than high school, and three or more children other than the index child living in the household. These odds ratios were generated accounting for the complex sampling design of the ECLS-B.