Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics on Imputed Analytic Sample: U.S. Women Ages 14 to 22 in 1979 with a First Birth between Ages 15 and 36 (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979).

	Age at First Birth
	Black Women			White Women			Hispanic Women
	15–19	20–24	25–35	15–19	20–24	25–35	15–19	20–24	25–35
Never married at first birth	85.54%	62.84%	39.61%	31.68%	12.11%	5.15%	42.91%	26.34%	13.74%
Health limitations before first birth	1.18%	7.25%	3.38%	13.50%	7.62%	4.88%	8.81%	4.12%	2.75%
Self-assessed health (age 40)	3.27	3.38	3.67	3.52	3.65	3.90	3.38	3.39	3.64
R’s mother’s education (years)	9.98	1.96	11.11	1.59	11.53	12.42	7.16	7.18	8.62
R’s mother had adolescent first birth	12.63%	1.27%	5.31%	8.26%	7.03%	2.37%	1.34%	7.41%	6.59%
R used contraception before birth	31.36%	46.22%	45.02%	36.09%	59.69%	45.83%	22.61%	37.37%	4.44%
Home environment at age 14
Lived with both parents	41.14%	49.55%	59.42%	68.87%	74.80%	84.70%	57.09%	67.08%	74.73%
South	63.75%	61.03%	57.20%	39.45%	24.96%	26.04%	27.66%	22.72%	22.53%
Urban	79.84%	78.55%	8.19%	7.80%	7.54%	78.23%	9.42%	87.24%	86.26%
Reading material in home	74.87%	86.10%	87.83%	91.46%	95.70%	97.89%	76.55%	74.49%	82.64%
Adult female in home worked	56.13%	58.55%	62.13%	51.63%	54.77%	52.01%	42.07%	37.86%	59.01%
Adult male in home worked	52.10%	6.12%	67.15%	8.94%	84.80%	87.57%	66.13%	7.53%	76.92%
Religious affiliation in childhood
Baptist (reference)	66.35%	68.28%	59.90%	37.19%	2.66%	13.72%	6.51%	2.47%	3.85%
Catholic	7.13%	7.85%	11.11%	22.92%	28.71%	39.97%	84.67%	9.53%	86.26%
Liberal Protestant	1.26%	1.27%	15.46%	24.35%	32.66%	31.13%	1.92%	1.23%	3.85%
Other religion	1.71%	1.27%	11.11%	9.37%	13.09%	1.16%	4.98%	3.70%	4.95%
No religion	5.54%	3.32%	2.42%	6.17%	4.88%	5.01%	1.92%	2.06%	1.10%
% of births within race-ethnic group	47.71%	32.17%	2.12%	22.23%	31.35%	46.42%	38.19%	35.42%	26.53%
n	491	331	207	363	512	758	261	243	182

Note: R = respondent.