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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2011 Nov 23;17(4):337–362. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2011.635374

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of study sample by gender, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979)a.

Full sample, n=8354 Female, n=4318 Male, n=4036
Body mass indexb,c 26.05 25.68 26.41
Race/ethnicity
 White 0.53 0.53 0.53
 Black 0.29 0.29 0.29
 Hispanic 0.18 0.18 0.18
Female 0.52
Mothers’ educationb 10.81 10.76 10.86
Respondents’ educationb,c 12.90 13.01 12.79
Birth cohort
 1957–1960 0.48 0.50 0.46
 1961–1964 0.52 0.50 0.54
Respondents’ nativity
 Respondent foreign-born 0.07 0.06 0.07
Parents’ nativity
 Both or known parent US-born 0.88 0.88 0.88
 One parent foreign-born 0.05 0.05 0.04
 Both or known parent foreign- born 0.07 0.07 0.08
Family Structure at 14
 Nuclear 0.69 0.69 0.69
 Step-family 0.07 0.07 0.07
 Female-headed 0.19 0.19 0.19
 Other 0.05 0.05 0.05
Community at 14
 Rural 0.20 0.20 0.20
 Non-rural 0.80 0.80 0.80
Area of residence at 14
 US South 0.35 0.35 0.34
 US Non-South 0.63 0.63 0.64
 Outside US 0.02 0.02 0.02
Occupational statusc
 Professional/managerial 0.22 0.24 0.21
 Labor 0.26 0.10 0.42
 Sales/service/clerical 0.36 0.47 0.25
 Not working 0.16 0.19 0.12
Marital statusc
 Married 0.45 0.47 0.44
 Divorced/separated/widowed 0.16 0.19 0.13
 Never married 0.39 0.34 0.43
Communityc
 Rural 0.20 0.20 0.19
 Non-rural 0.76 0.77 0.76
 Not classified 0.04 0.03 0.05
Died in survey interval 0.04 0.02 0.05
a

Estimates are proportions unless otherwise noted, may not add to 1 due to rounding error.

b

Continuous variable, mean presented.

c

Time-varying measure, estimates presented are over survey interval.