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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2015 Jan 22;50:75–82. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.01.013

Table 1.

Sample characteristics for intervention and comparison groups.

Unweighted Weighted Max ASMDb
FFT FFP FFT+FFP Comp. FFT FFP FFT+FFP Comp. Unweig. Weight.
Number of youth 524 216 539 7,434 280a 161a 262a 7338a -- --
Race / Ethnicity
 White 7.3% 7.4% 5.6% 8.2% 8.3% 6.7% 8.0% 7.9% 0.09 0.04
 African American 24.0% 26.4% 38.6% 28.5% 29.2% 29.2% 28.0% 28.8% 0.22 0.02
 Latino 65.3% 63.4% 53.4% 60.9% 59.6% 61.3% 61.1% 60.7% 0.15 0.02
 Other race/ethnicity 3.4% 2.8% 2.4% 2.4% 2.9% 2.8% 2.9% 2.5% 0.06 0.03
Male 78.1% 73.6% 77.6% 78.7% 77.3% 78.8% 73.9% 78.4% 0.12 0.11
Age at current release 16.5 16.5 16.5 17.1 16.8 16.9 17.0 17.0 0.42 0.19
Age at first arrest 14.4 14.3 14.4 14.6 14.5 14.5 14.6 14.6 0.21 0.10
Age at first OHP 15.7 15.5 15.6 15.8 15.6 15.7 15.9 15.8 0.20 0.17
Age at first felony 14.7 14.6 14.7 14.9 14.7 14.8 14.9 14.9 0.22 0.11
Count of prior arrests 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.5 2.3 0.17 0.08
Count of prior OHPs 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.9 1.8 1.9 2.0 1.8 0.35 0.10
Counts of prior petitions (by type):
 Assault deadly weapon 0.15 0.20 0.19 0.17 0.20 0.15 0.19 0.17 0.07 0.07
 Battery 0.17 0.20 0.19 0.21 0.22 0.21 0.28 0.20 0.07 0.17
 Burglary 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.23 0.26 0.21 0.30 0.23 0.14 0.10
 Petty theft 0.21 0.33 0.34 0.30 0.26 0.35 0.36 0.30 0.09 0.05
 Robbery 0.17 0.19 0.14 0.19 0.16 0.18 0.18 0.18 0.10 0.12
 Vandalism 0.19 0.21 0.27 0.21 0.27 0.21 0.21 0.22 0.07 0.05
a

Effective sample sizes (McCaffrey, Ridgeway, & Morral, 2004).

b

Maximum value of the Absolute Standardized Mean Difference among the four groups with respect to the overall population.