Table 2.
FRAGILE FAMILIES: Means and Proportions for Select Variables by Race and Sex
| FULL | WHITE | BLACK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | ||
| Obese | 0.219 | 0.138 | 0.155 | 0.286 | 0.211 |
| Overweight | 0.176 | 0.204 | 0.139 | 0.183 | 0.174 |
| Skill ratings (std) | |||||
| Language | 0.000 | 0.464 | 0.240 | 0.065 | −0.302 |
| (1.000) | (0.890) | (0.936) | (0.984) | (0.979) | |
| Math | 0.000 | 0.282 | 0.412 | −0.046 | −0.203 |
| (1.000) | (0.865) | (0.928) | (0.973) | (1.029) | |
| Test Scores (std) | |||||
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test | 0.000 | 0.722 | 0.657 | −0.218 | −0.292 |
| (1.000) | (0.896) | (0.965) | (0.887) | (0.908) | |
| Woodcock-Johnson: Verbal | 0.000 | 0.478 | 0.335 | 0.045 | −0.326 |
| (1.000) | (0.879) | (0.799) | (0.877) | (1.089) | |
| Digit Span | 0.000 | 0.140 | 0.199 | −0.007 | −0.113 |
| (1.000) | (0.955) | (0.956) | (0.948) | (1.058) | |
| Woodcock-Johnson: Math | 0.000 | 0.395 | 0.445 | −0.040 | −0.262 |
| (1.000) | (0.965) | (0.820) | (0.899) | (1.056) | |
| Mother’s education | 2.674 | 3.056 | 3.041 | 2.541 | 2.527 |
| (0.939) | (0.951) | (0.965) | (0.921) | (0.869) | |
| Father’s education | 1.919 | 2.679 | 2.660 | 1.662 | 1.616 |
| (1.446) | (1.364) | (1.439) | (1.346) | (1.373) | |
| Mother’s income (arsinh) | 1 0.885 | 11.597 | 11.544 | 10.536 | 10.708 |
| (1.497) | (0.869) | (1.531) | (1.678) | (1.331) | |
| Mother’s age | 25.297 | 27.327 | 28.103 | 24.676 | 24.143 |
| (6.137) | (6.499) | (6.652) | (5.772) | (5.648) | |
| Father’s age | 27.984 | 29.901 | 30.349 | 27.831 | 26.621 |
| (7.095) | (6.981) | (7.407) | (7.190) | (6.581) | |
| Child’s age (months) | 110.875 | 110.837 | 110.588 | 111.035 | 110.849 |
| (4.404) | (3.885) | (4.401) | (4.505) | (4.493) | |
| Social skills (std) | −0.070 | 0.421 | 0.094 | 0.060 | −0.413 |
| (1.006) | (0.869) | (0.946) | (0.980) | (0.984) | |
| Private School | 0.093 | 0.143 | 0.201 | 0.066 | 0.061 |
| Mother obese | 0.467 | 0.301 | 0.351 | 0.552 | 0.493 |
| Mother’s Cognition | |||||
| Wechsler Adult | 7.182 | 8.295 | 8.380 | 6.735 | 6.735 |
| Intelligence Scale | (2.558) | (2.448) | (2.478) | (2.445) | (2.466) |
| Missingness (Father) | |||||
| Education (wave 5) | 0.285 | 0.133 | 0.160 | 0.326 | 0.348 |
| White | 0.273 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Black | 0.727 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| Female | 0.474 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 |
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| N | 1430 | 196 | 194 | 482 | 558 |
Note: Data were drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Sample includes non-Hispanic black and white respondents with measurements of weight and height and teacher survey data. Standard deviations in parentheses.