Table 1.

Characteristics of the Young Women in RDSL

	All respondents (n=880)				Non-pregnant respondents (n=697)		Pregnant respondents (n=183)
	Proportion/Mean	SD	Min	Max	Proportion/Mean	↔ sig. diff.	Proportion/Mean
Number of Pregnancies during the Study Period
0	79%		0	1	100%	–	0%
1	18%		0	1	0%	–	84%
2	3%		0	1	0%	–	14%
3+	0%		0	1	0%	–	2%
Total	100%				100%		100%
Demographics
Age	19.18	.57	18.12	20.34	19.19	ns	19.17
Black	.34		0	1	.32	†	.39
Family Background
Childhood disadvantage (sum of four indicators: receipt of public assistance, single-parent household, teen mother, mother’s education ≤ high school)	1.28	1.10	0	4	1.18	***	1.66
Highly religious	.58		0	1	.57	ns	.59
Socioeconomic Characteristics at the Baseline Survey
High school GPA	3.12	.61	.00	4.17	3.15	**	3.00
Receiving public assistance	.26		0	1	.23	***	.39
Enrolled in a 2- or 4-year post-secondary program	.58		0	1	.59	***	.42
Employed	.50		0	1	.52	*	.42
Adolescent Experiences Related to Pregnancy
Age at first sex 16 years or less	.53		0	1	.48	***	.72
Two or more sex partners	.61		0	1	.57	***	.76
Had sex without birth control	.49		0	1	.44	***	.69
Any adolescent pregnancies	.26		0	1	.21	***	.44

Notes:

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001;

^†p < .10;

two-tailed independent samples t-tests

ns not significant

– no test