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. 2018 May 30;15(6):1114. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061114

Table 1.

Summary statistics, PSID-CDS, 1990–2014.

Total 1997 CDS Cohort 2014 CDS Cohort
(N = 4535) (N = 1319) (N = 3216)
Child-Level
Childhood asthma, no. (%)
  No 3868 (85.29) 1180 (89.46) 2688 (83.58)
  Yes 667 (14.71) 139 (10.54) 528 (16.42)
Early-life NO2 (ppb), mean (SD) 12.80 (6.59) 15.93 (7.38) 11.51 (5.76)
Early-life PM2.5 (µ/m3), mean (SD) 12.73 (3.31) 14.97 (3.03) 11.81 (2.97)
Early-life NH poverty, no. (%) *
  Low (<10%) 1677 (37.00) 515 (39.04) 1162 (36.15)
  Moderate (10–20%) 1391 (30.69) 386 (29.26) 1005 (31.27)
  High (>20%) 1465 (32.32) 418 (31.69) 1047 (32.58)
Age (years), mean (SD) 7.15 (4.17) 3.86 (1.98) 8.49 (4.09)
Sex, no. (%)
  Male 2282 (50.32) 670 (50.80) 1612 (50.12)
  Female 2253 (49.68) 649 (49.20) 1604 (49.88)
Parental asthma history, no. (%)
  No 3735 (82.36) 1075 (81.50) 2660 (82.71)
  Yes 800 (17.64) 244 (18.50) 556 (17.29)
Household-Level
HH age (years), mean (SD) 37.82 (10.52) 34.62 (9.04) 39.13 (10.81)
HH sex, no. (%)
  Male 3209 (70.76) 968 (73.39) 2241 (69.68)
  Female 1326 (29.24) 351 (26.61) 975 (30.32)
HH race, no. (%)
  NL White 2394 (52.79) 744 (56.41) 1650 (51.31)
  NL Black 1815 (40.02) 546 (41.39) 1269 (39.46)
  NL Asian 24 (0.53) 1 (0.08) 23 (0.72)
  NL Other/Multi 23 (0.51) 5 (0.38) 18 (0.56)
  Latino 279 (6.15) 23 (1.74) 256 (7.96)
HH employment, no. (%)
  Unemployed 665 (14.66) 177 (13.42) 488 (15.17)
  Employed 3870 (85.34) 1142 (86.58) 2728 (84.83)
Income (year 2000 $), mean (SD) 53,137 (89177) 49,821 (45549) 54,497 (101776)
Persons per room, mean (SD) 0.81 (0.40) 0.74 (0.32) 0.84 (0.43)
Current household smoking, no. (%)
  No 3367 (74.24) 913 (69.22) 2454 (76.31)
  Yes 1168 (25.76) 406 (30.78) 762 (23.69)
Health insurance, no. (%)
  Insured 4332 (95.52) 1249 (94.69) 3083 (95.86)
  Uninsured 203 (4.48) 70 (5.31) 133 (4.14)

NH = Neighborhood; HH = Household head; NL = Non-Latino; * N = 4533 due to missing data on NH poverty status.