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

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

^bContinuous variable, mean presented.

^cTime-varying measure, estimates presented are over survey interval.