. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2015 Mar;56(1):2–18. doi: 10.1177/0022146514567896

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Dependent and Independent Variables, by Race-ethnicity

	Total	Mexican	Other Latino	White	Black	Asian
Behavior Problems Index
Internalizing (X̄)	2.98	3.56^b	3.38^b	2.24^a	2.64^a	2.18^a
Externalizing (X̄)	6.48	6.88	5.99^a	6.48	7.01	5.13^a
Child Characteristics
Female (%)	49.56	50.38	50.38	47.88	48.97	49.53
Age (X̄)	9.67	9.36^b	9.47	10.10^a	9.91	10.02
Mother/Family Characteristics
Mother’s Immigration Status
Undocumented (%)	13.59	27.42	16.00	0.0	0.0	0.0
Naturalized citizen or documented (%)	42.52	48.84^b	63.50^a,^b	17.53^a	8.78^a	76.55^a,^b
U.S. born (%)	43.89	23.74^b	20.51^b	82.47^a	91.22^a	23.45^b
Mother’s education < high school (%)	36.13	61.28^b	44.30^a,^b	6.79^a	19.74^a,^b	9.03^a
Poor family (%)	42.09	51.03^b	48.23^b	29.39^a	39.02	30.91^a
Single parent (%)	41.54	39.62^b	51.51^a,^b	29.97^a	82.29^a,^b	24.40^a
Mother depressed (%)	14.05	12.42	19.86^a	15.74	17.45	6.63^b
Family routines (X̄)	20.10	20.15	20.11	20.37	19.01	20.33
Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics
Child-centered closure and control (X̄)	25.66	25.12^b	24.92^b	26.93^a	25.90	25.73
Unweighted N	2535	1217	387	506	212	213
Weighted %	100.00	41.76	13.40	23.50	10.09	11.25

Data Source: Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Analysis based on weighted data.

Significantly different from Mexicans

Significantly different from Whites