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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Sci. 2014 Apr 21;1:141–158. doi: 10.15195/v1.a11

Table 1.

Weighted Means and Standard Deviations for School Readiness Variables by Race, Gender, and Paternal Incarceration Status

by Paternal Incarceration Status by Race and Gender

by Race by Gender Never Before or By YR1 Between YR1 & YR5 White Black


Overall White Black Male Female Male Female Male Female
Non-cognitive Readiness (NR) Standardized 0.10 (0.97) 0.19 (0.94) −0.01 (0.99) 0.01 (1.04) 0.20 (0.88) 0.20 (0.93) −0.12 (0.99) −0.13 (1.12) 0.09 (1.03) 0.32 (0.81) −0.09 (1.03) 0.10 (0.94)

Cognitive Readiness (CR) Standardized 0.29 (0.98) 0.89 (0.75) −0.13 (0.90) 0.26 (1.02) 0.33 (0.92) 0.54 (0.92) −0.03 (0.94) −0.27 (0.91) 0.84 (0.78) 0.96 (0.71) −0.20 (0.96) −0.05 (0.82)

 NR N=2602 n=765 n=1837 n=1375 n=1227 n=1452 n=822 n=328 n=413 n=352 n=962 n=875
 CR N= 1709 n=424 n=1285 n=890 n=819 n=880 n=590 n=239 n=226 n=198 n=664 n=621

by Race and Gender and Paternal Incarceration Status
Father Never Incarcerated Father Incarcerated
Before or By YR1 Between YR1 and YR5

White Black White Black White Black

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
Non-cognitive Readiness (NR) Standardized 0.12 (1.00) 0.49 (0.80) 0.09 (0.99) 0.21 (0.86) −0.10 (1.30) −0.13 (0.72) −0.15 (0.96) −0.10 (0.97) −0.15 (0.88) 0.33 (0.80) −0.51 (1.19) 0.19 (1.03)

Cognitive Readiness (CR) Standardized 0.93 (0.74) 1.06 (0.64) −0.01 (0.90) 0.06 (0.84) 0.54 (0.71) 0.55 (0.91) −0.29 (0.98) −0.13 (0.80) 0.23 (1.04) 0.61 (0.51) −0.56 (0.93) −0.21 (0.75)

 NR n=309 n=257 n=463 n=423 n=72 n=65 n=359 n=326 n=32 n=30 n=140 n=126
 CR n=158 n=138 n=301 n=283 n=47 n=42 n=257 n=244 n=21 n=18 n=106 n=94

Note: National weights and imputed black-white sample data used. YR1 and YR5 stand for Year 1 and Year 5 respectively. Standard deviations are in parentheses.