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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Dis Child. 2015 Sep 7;100(12):1148–1154. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308358

Table 1.

Sample Descriptive Statistics for Children with Oral Clefts and Their Classmates

Variable Children with Oral Clefts Classmates

N % N %
Oral Clefts
 All Cleft Types 586 100
 CL only 218 37.2
 CP only 135 23.0
 CLP 233 39.8

Child sex
 Female 248 42.3 798 42.6
 Male 338 57.7 1075 57.4

Child first born
 No 360 61.4 1163 62.1
 Yes 226 38.6 710 37.9

Child birth weight (grams)
 <2500 34 5.8 100 5.3
 2500–4000 467 79.7 1511 80.7
 >4000 85 14.5 262 14.0

Apgar score < 7
 No 510 87.0 1662 88.7
 Yes 74 12.6 210 11.2
 Missing 2 0.3 1 0.1

Mother married
 No 118 20.1 361 19.3
 Yes 467 79.7 1504 80.3
 Missing 1 0.2 8 0.4

Maternal age (years)
 < 20 59 10.1 172 9.2
 20–25 181 30.9 584 31.2
 26–35 295 50.3 972 51.9
 > 35 51 8.7 144 7.7
 Missing 1 0.1

Maternal education
 < High school 78 13.3 216 11.5
 High school or some college 402 68.6 1278 68.2
 ≥4 years of college 101 17.2 368 19.7
 Missing 5 0.9 11 0.6

Prenatal visits
≤6 25 4.3 84 4.5
7–9 77 13.1 221 11.8
10–12 272 46.4 952 50.8
13–15 155 26.5 449 24.0
≥15 40 6.8 125 6.7
Missing 17 2.9 42 2.2

  N 586 1873

Notes: The Table reports the percentages of the demographic, socioeconomic, and health variables for children with testing data in at least one academic domain.