Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics of Sample Restricted to Complete Cases by Wave and Full Wave 1 Sample: means and (Std. Dev.)

			Analysis Dataset: Complete across Waves						Wave 1 Sample
	Black				White				Black	White
	1986	1989	1994	2002	1986	1989	1994	2002	1986	1986
N=	533	481	426	287	954	898	854	712	778	1481
BMI	27.69	28.17	29.03	30.41	24.81	25.30	25.94	26.94	27.52	24.78
Range 14.41–54.68	(3.45)	(3.59)	(3.54)	(3.91)	(5.76)	(5.93)	(6.18)	(6.69)	(3.11)	(5.21)
Proportion Age 24–30	0.20	–	–	–	0.19	–	–	–	0.18	0.16
	(0.24)				(0.46)				(0.21)	(0.40)
Proportion Age 31–40	0.30	–	–	–	0.28	–	–	–	0.27	0.25
	(0.27)				(0.53)				(0.24)	(0.46)
Education	11.74	–	–	–	12.72	–	–	–	11.28	12.31
Range 0–17	(1.75)				(3.09)				(1.81)	(3.13)
Number of Children	2.99	–	–	–	2.40	–	–	–	2.89	2.36
Range 0–7	(1.21)				(1.94)				(1.13)	(1.80)
Prior Smoker	0.25	–	–	–	0.28	–	–	–	0.17	0.21
Range 0–1	(0.26)				(0.52)				(0.21)	(0.44)
Had Baby last year	0.06	0.06	0.03	0.01	0.07	0.06	0.02	0.02	0.05	0.06
Range 0–1	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.10)	(0.07)	(0.30)	(0.27)	(0.15)	(0.17)	(0.12)	(0.26)
Married	0.48	0.45	0.45	0.37	0.72	0.71	0.71	0.66	0.44	0.66
Range 0–1	(0.29)	(0.29)	(0.30)	(0.29)	(0.52)	(0.53)	(0.54)	(0.57)	(0.27)	(0.50)
Log Family Income	9.46	9.54	9.86	10.17	10.11	10.26	10.42	10.69	9.33	9.92
	(0.60)	(0.61)	(0.58)	(0.54)	(1.01)	(1.03)	(0.96)	(1.03)	(0.57)	(1.00)
Family Income	19,939	22,070	29,039	37,290	33,513	39,072	43,817	65,366	18,260	29,382
Range 2500–1,500,00	(10,301)	(11,677)	(15,036)	(18,388)	(29,211)	(33,455)	(33,577)	(141,852)	(9,225)	(25,766)
Have 10K + Assets	0.22	0.30	0.50	0.66	0.53	0.55	0.70	0.83	0.22	0.49
	(0.25)	(0.27)	(0.30)	(0.29)	(0.58)	(0.58)	(0.54)	(0.46)	(0.22)	(0.53)
Physical Activity	−0.29	−0.53	−0.10	−0.12	0.07	−0.10	0.04	−0.06	-.36	−0.09
Range −2 – 1.5 (more)	(0.60)	(0.59)	(0.61)	(0.53)	(1.11)	(1.04)	(1.11)	(1.09)	(0.56)	(1.09)
Smoke	0.33	0.28	0.20	0.17	0.32	0.27	0.23	0.16	0.31	0.29
Range 0–1	(0.27)	(0.26)	(0.24)	(0.23)	(0.55)	(0.52)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.25)	(0.48)
Acute Stress	0.89	1.06	1.24	1.50	0.90	0.81	1.11	1.39	0.88	0.90
Range 0–6 (more)	(0.52)	(0.56)	(0.63)	(0.63)	(1.07)	(0.96)	(1.08)	(1.30)	(0.48)	(0.95)
Financial Strain	0.44	0.41	0.23	0.07	0.04	−0.07	−0.06	−0.26	0.42	−0.01
Range −1.8 – 2.7 (more)	(0.61)	(0.59)	(0.60)	(0.58)	(1.17)	(1.10)	(1.08)	(1.10)	(0.57)	(1.08)
Social Support	0.07	0.09	0.31	0.31	0.24	0.24	0.39	0.34	0.09	0.22
Range −3.7 – 1.3 (more)	(0.61)	(0.62)	(0.62)	(0.59)	(1.03)	(0.96)	(0.99)	(1.08)	(0.56)	(0.98)
	139 Tracts				318 Tracts				200 Tracts	377 Tracts
Neigh. Disadvantage	112.61	–	–	–	88.66	–	–	–	113.30	90.41
Range 27–179 (more)	(25.66)				(22.61)				(26.22)	(23.07)
Percent Black	59.22	–	–	–	7.02	–	–	–	56.82	8.96
Range 0–100	(31.94)				(15.23)				(32.21)	(17.60)