Table 2:

Results of ordinal generalized estimating equation to predict children’s substance abuse from age 13 to 17 (cumulative logit link)

	G2 Fathers			G2 Mothers
		95% Confidence Interval			95% Confidence Interval
	exp(Est)	-	+	exp(Est)	-	+
Intercept 1	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.04
Intercept 2	0.02	0.01	0.05	0.01	0.00	0.08
Intercept 3	0.14	0.07	0.29	0.08	0.02	0.39
Child’s age (centered at 15)	1.38	1.17	1.64	1.56	1.37	1.78
Child’s contact with father	0.94	0.81	1.09
Child is male	1.10	0.70	1.72	0.85	0.45	1.62
G2 is African American	0.37	0.19	0.73	0.62	0.14	2.64
G2 is Hispanic	0.33	0.14	0.77	1.19	0.24	5.84
Child’s birth year (centered at mean)	0.83	0.77	0.90	0.90	0.81	0.99
G2’s age at start of RYDS (centered at mean)	0.99	0.75	1.29	0.66	0.44	0.98
Arrest rate of G2’s neighborhood at start of RYDS (centered at mean)	0.96	0.83	1.11	0.84	0.71	0.99
Friends’ substance use (centered at “none”)	2.59	2.05	3.26	3.41	2.71	4.30
Other caregiver’s lifetime disorder status	0.99	0.36	2.71
G2’s lifetime disorder status	0.26	0.11	0.62	1.66	0.38	7.21
Other caregiver’s lifetime disorder status*Friends’ substance use	1.04	0.58	1.86
G2’s lifetime disorder status*Friends’ substance use	3.65	2.31	5.74	0.55	0.24	1.26

95% confidence intervals that do not include 1 are statistically significant (p<.05).