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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2014 Mar 19;46:142–154. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.03.002

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics: person year data file.

Male Female
Premature mortality 0.004 0.002
Age 31.2 31.3
Race (Black = 1) 0.282 0.275
Other race 0.062 0.061
Parents education 0.153 0.152
Welfare 0.129 0.158
High S. degree 0.589 0.620
No degree 0.253 0.218
Poverty status 0.296 0.307
Early delinquency 0.231 0.092
Drug use 0.294 0.229
Violence (sporadic) 0.247 0.152
Violence (often) 0.169 0.047
Violence (never reference) 0.584 0.801
Locus of control 2.561 2.501
Poverty 0.079 0.0471
Married 0.679 0.709
Employed 0.923 0.889
Health problems 0.072 0.099
Health Insurance (1 = yes) 0.669 0.740
Incarceration 0.099 0.012
Observations 68,276 70,869
Respondents 6225 6134

Notes: For time stable variables (e.g., race) the numbers inTable 1 represent the proportion of sample that are in a given state or category.

Notes: For time varying variables (incarceration) the numbers in Table 1 represent the wave specific probability a respondent enters a given state or category.