Table 2.
Time-varying sample characteristics
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| Age 1 | Age 10 | Age 17 | Age 1 | Age 10 | Age 17 | |
| Neighborhood disadvantage quintile, percent | ||||||
| 1st quintile (least disadvantaged) | 2.05 | 3.47 | 5.52 | 14.43 | 18.97 | 21.73 |
| 2nd quintile | 2.84 | 5.52 | 8.04 | 20.75 | 18.79 | 21.73 |
| 3rd quintile | 6.15 | 6.78 | 9.78 | 22.97 | 25.73 | 25.65 |
| 4th quintile | 15.14 | 16.72 | 17.67 | 26.27 | 24.13 | 21.10 |
| 5th quintile (most disadvantaged) | 73.82 | 67.51 | 58.99 | 15.58 | 12.38 | 9.80 |
| Household head’s marital status, percent | ||||||
| Unmarried | 34.07 | 43.38 | 49.53 | 4.99 | 11.40 | 17.10 |
| Married | 65.93 | 56.62 | 50.47 | 95.01 | 88.60 | 82.90 |
| Household head’s employment status, percent | ||||||
| Unemployed | 28.86 | 33.60 | 29.81 | 7.93 | 10.15 | 9.17 |
| Employed | 71.14 | 66.40 | 70.19 | 92.07 | 89.85 | 90.83 |
| Public assistance receipt, percent | ||||||
| Received public assistance | 19.40 | 26.34 | 14.98 | 3.65 | 4.01 | 1.69 |
| Did not receive public assistance | 80.60 | 73.66 | 85.02 | 96.35 | 95.99 | 98.31 |
| Homeownership, percent | ||||||
| Does not own home | 64.98 | 57.26 | 49.05 | 38.74 | 23.06 | 19.95 |
| Owns home | 35.02 | 42.74 | 50.95 | 61.26 | 76.94 | 80.05 |
| Household income in (1985) $1,000s, mean (SD) | 15.41 (11.01) | 16.53 (13.83) | 18.06 (15.77) | 29.01 (16.85) | 25.69 (24.64) | 29.87 (31.82) |
| Household head’s work hours/week, mean (SD) | 27.92 (17.99) | 27.73 (19.90) | 29.59 (20.44) | 42.10 (15.02) | 41.51 (15.39) | 41.12 (15.75) |
| Family size, mean (SD) | 4.96 (2.64) | 4.74 (1.67) | 4.54 (1.62) | 3.91 (1.18) | 4.49 (1.04) | 4.09 (1.15) |
Note: Statistics reported for respondents not lost to follow -up before age 18 and w ho answ ered at least one self-rated health question in early adulthood (first of 10 imputation datasets); Within each age, differences by race are statistically significant at p<0.001