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. 2016 Nov 5;2:850–858. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.10.014

Table 1.

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and descriptive statistics for the US Multisite Child Community Health Network (CCHN) Study 2008−2012. Total sample and for each race/ethnicity (n=1766).

Race/Ethnicity
Test of Group Difference

African Americans (n = 942)
Whites (n = 402)
Latinas (n = 422)



Categorical variable n (%) n (%) n (%) χ2 df p
Poverty group 240.87 8 <.0001
<200% FPL 594 (63.1) 125 (31.1) 300 (71.1)
200–300% FPL 115 (12.2) 50 (12.4) 41 (9.7)
300–400% FPL 83 (8.8) 60 (14.9) 27 (6.4)
>400% FPL 112 (11.9) 157 (39.1) 32 (7.6)
Missing 38 (4.0) 10 (2.5) 22 (5.2)
Relationship Status 531.51 6 <.0001
Not Married or Cohabitating 539 (57.2) 54 (13.4) 67 (15.9)
Cohabitating, Not Married 265 (28.1) 68 (16.9) 176 (41.7)
Married 134 (14.2) 280 (69.7) 179 (42.4)
Missing 4 (0.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Site 669.08 8 <.0001
Baltimore 324 (34.4) 81 (20.2) 0 (0.0)
Lake County, IL 66 (7.0) 149 (37.1) 217 (51.4)
Los Angeles County 69 (7.3) 60 (14.9) 114 (27.0)
Eastern North Carolina 223 (23.7) 95 (23.6) 4 (1.0)
Washington, DC 260 (27.6) 17 (4.2) 87 (20.6)
Continuous variable M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) F df p
Per capita household income 10,733 (12,067) 26,954 (37,271) 9686 (13,205) 94.67 2, 1702 <.0001
Education (years) 12.81 (2.16) 15.42 (3.06) 11.05 (2.96) 298.31 2, 1763 <.0001
Age 24.336 (5.09) 29.77 (5.98) 25.87 (5.28) 145.62 2, 1763 <.0001
T3 Clinical Allostatic Load 4.65 (1.62) 3.86 (1.45) 4.57 (1.66) 36.01 2, 1763 <.0001
Stress composite 2.03 (1.66) 1.50 (1.53) 1.64 (1.51) 18.4 2, 1763 <.0001
Resilience composite 1.85 (1.61) 2.24 (1.70) 1.44 (1.33) 26.72 2, 1763 <.0001
Neighborhood Index 1 -0.28 (0.60) −0.50 (0.54) 0.63 (0.99) 321.68 2, 1763 <.0001
Neighborhood Index 2 0.84 (1.05) −0.58 (0.67) −0.25 (0.67) 445.09 2, 1763 <.0001