Table 5.
Odds ratios of low math performance at 60 months (n = 4,200 a ).
Variable | Gender-specific 10% cutoffs |
Overall 10% cutoffs |
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Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |
Late talker, 24 months | 2.20** | 2.17* | 1.94* | 2.06* | 2.01* | 1.80 |
Low receptive vocabulary, 48 months | 3.51*** | 3.59*** | 2.62*** | 3.39*** | 4.48*** | 3.42*** |
Late talker, 24 months × low vocabulary, 48 months | 0.99 | 0.97 | 1.15 | 0.91 | 0.89 | 0.97 |
African American | 1.52* | 1.53* | 1.49 | 1.66* | 1.75** | 1.67* |
Hispanic | 0.91 | 0.94 | 0.79 | 1.03 | 1.07 | 0.92 |
Other race | 1.12 | 1.12 | 0.94 | 1.31 | 1.33 | 1.18 |
Child age | 0.62*** | 0.62*** | 0.60*** | 0.62*** | 0.62*** | 0.60*** |
Male | 1.11 | 1.12 | 1.03 | 1.32 | 1.33 | 1.20 |
Lowest SES quintile | 14.87*** | 16.33*** | 8.86*** | 11.91*** | 12.70*** | 7.89*** |
Second-lowest SES quintile | 7.74*** | 8.18*** | 5.15*** | 6.90*** | 7.18*** | 5.05*** |
Middle SES quintile | 6.14*** | 6.34*** | 4.87*** | 4.91*** | 4.94*** | 4.08*** |
Second-highest SES quintile | 2.96** | 3.03** | 2.66* | 2.36* | 2.37* | 2.14 |
Male × child age, 24 months | 1.23 | 1.22 | 1.27 | 1.29 | 1.29 | 1.32 |
Nonsingleton | 1.33 | 1.33 | 1.39 | 1.40 | ||
Mother's age > 35 years at child's birth | 1.13 | 1.18 | 0.84 | 0.86 | ||
Mother's age ≤ 18 years at child's birth | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.84 | 0.97 | ||
Mother not married, 24 months | 0.99 | 1.02 | 0.88 | 0.92 | ||
Labor complications | 0.88 | 0.94 | ||||
Obstetric procedures | 1.10 | 1.04 | ||||
Medical risk factors in pregnancy | 1.09 | 1.10 | ||||
Behavioral risk factors in pregnancy | 0.92 | 0.83 | ||||
Moderately low birth weight | 1.05 | 1.09 | ||||
Family member with mental illness | 0.66 | 0.62* | ||||
Family member with learning disability | 1.65* | 1.80** | ||||
Household has person with special needs | 1.42 | 1.17 | ||||
Maternal health problems, 9 months | 1.15 | 1.17 | ||||
Mother depressed, 9 months | 1.08 | 0.91 | ||||
Mother isolated, 9 months | 1.17 | 1.07 | ||||
Parenting score, 24 months | 0.80* | 0.76* | ||||
Child in child care center (not Head Start) > 10 hr/week, 48 months | 0.41*** | 0.46*** | ||||
Child in Head Start > 10 hr/week, 48 months | 0.44*** | 0.40*** | ||||
Approaches to learning problems, 24 months | 1.60 | 1.47 | ||||
Internalizing problems, 24 months | 0.96 | 0.91 | ||||
Externalizing problems, 24 months | 1.43 | 1.53 | ||||
Max-rescaled R 2 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.29 | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.29 |
Tjur's R 2 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.20 |
Note. Child age and parenting scores are standardized with a mean of 0 and an SD of 1. SES = socioeconomic status.
Sample size is rounded to the nearest 50 per Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort confidentiality requirements.
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