Table 6. Odds Ratios from Multinomial Logistic Regression Model Predicting Eighth-Grade Classes (Referent: “GenerallyFavorable”).

	Favorable but irregular		Favorable but irregular		Mid, compromised exercise/TV		Compromised exercise/ health care
Peer characteristics (First grade)
Modal class (generally favorable)
Generally compromised	.77		.75		.82		.52
Mixed	1.46	*	1.30		1.33		1.20
Mid, compromised exercise	.98		.87		1.09		1.74
Compromised diet/sleep/TV	1.00		.69		.86		.90
Percent of modal class	1.97	ad	.43	bc	1.14	a	.14	b
School characteristics (First grade)
Public school	1.06		1.35		1.34		2.58	+
% nonwhite	1.00		1.00		1.00		1.01	+
% free/reduced price lunch	.99	**a	1.00	b	.99	+	.99
Controls (Kindergarten)
Male	.91	c	1.00	c	.58	***ab	.77
Race/ethnicity (white)
Black	.84	ac	1.29	b	1.37	b	1.21
Hispanic	1.30	ac	1.89	**b	1.89	**b	1.54
Asian/Pacific Islander	.90		.64	c	1.14	a	.85
American Indian	1.30	a	.68	bc	1.78	+ad	.33	c
Multiracial	.57	*d	.83	d	.83	d	3.44	+abc
Resources (Kindergarten)
Income-to-needs	1.01	a	.91	*b	.96		.87
Maternal education (advanced degree)
Less than high school	1.30		2.22	*	2.15	*	2.81
High school	.94		1.51		1.27		1.44
Some college	.96		1.34		1.06		1.31
College degree	.93		1.07		.77		1.45
Married	.68	**	.66	*	.75		.98
No health insurance	.66	+	.98		.94		1.48
Parenting (Kindergarten)
# activities	.97	cd	.92		.84	***b	.76	**b
Constant	6.72		1.51		8.54		.24

Source: ECLS-K, 1998-2007.

Notes: N=7829. Accounts for complex sampling design. Nonsignificant covariates (child age, maternal age at survey, maternal age at birth, household language, # siblings, parenting scale, school enrollment, school % passing reading) not shown.

⁺p<.10

^*p<.05

^**p<.01

^***p<.001; two-tailed tests.

p<.05 compared to:

^amid, compromised diet/TV

^bfavorable but irregular

^cmid, compromised exercise/TV

^dCompromised exercise/health care