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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: RSF. 2017 Feb;3(2):210–231. doi: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.09

Table 1.

Household and Neighborhood Descriptive Statistics

Household characteristicsa (N=2,462) Mean SD
Less than High School Degree 0.35
High School Degree 0.45
College Degree or more 0.19
Median Household Income $27,000
Latino 0.56
White 0.26
Black 0.10
Asian/Other 0.08
Married 0.50
Residential Tenure (2+ years) 0.70
Parents 0.76
Age −0.08 14.39
Neighborhood characteristicsb(N=65)
Immigrant concentration 0.00 1.10
Residential instability 0.00 0.88
Racial Diversity 0.00 0.19
Activity Locationsa 3.91 0.54
Socioeconomic Inequality 0.00 0.85
Neighborhood Trusta 3.41 .44
Dyad characteristicsa(N=3,824,943)
Low SES similarity 0.15
Middle SES similarity 0.13
High SES similarity 0.21
Low-Middle SES dissimilarity 0.24
Low-High SES dissimilarity 0.09
Middle-High SES dissimilarity 0.19
Latino similarity 0.39
White similarity 0.14
Black similarity 0.03
Asian/Other similarity 0.02
Married similarity 0.28
Not married similarity 0.26
Residential Tenure (2+ yrs) similarity 0.50
Residential Tenure (<2 yrs) similarity 0.10
Parents similarity 0.59
Not parents similarity 0.05
Age difference 15.07 12.73
Distance 0.01 0.03

Source:

a

Los Angeles Neighborhood and Family Survey

b

Neighborhood characteristics from the U.S. Census Bureau, except where noted.