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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2018 Sep 27;217:45–54. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.055

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Variables Used in Analysis of Body Mass Index, by Race/Ethnicity: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1981–2010

Black Hispanic White
Mean  SD Mean  SD Mean  SD
Dependent variable
     Body Mass Index  27.58  6.15  27.04  5.60  25.56  5.30
Independent variables            
     Marital Status (married)  0.32  -  0.53  -  0.58  -
     Educational Attainment            
      Less than high school  0.13  -  0.21  -  0.10  -
      High school graduate  0.43  -  0.41  -  0.41  -
      Some college  0.29  -  0.26  -  0.23  -
      College or above (= reference category)  0.15  -  0.12  -  0.26  -
     Weekly hours worked  37.09  20.72  38.93  19.81  41.43  17.91
     Adjusted family income (in $10,000s)  6.18  9.24  7.55  10.87  9.62  14.56
     Receiving public assistance  0.07  -  0.04  -  0.02  -
Immediate Neighborhood Variables            
     Proportion non-Hispanic Black  0.48  0.33  -  -  -  -
     Proportion Hispanic  -  -  0.39  0.30  -  -
     Proportion White  -  -  -  -  0.84  0.18
     Poverty Rate  0.21  0.14  0.18  0.13  0.11  0.08
Cumulative Exposure to Immediate Neighborhood Variables            
     Proportion non-Hispanic Black  0.48  0.29  -  -  -  -
     Proportion Hispanic  -  -  0.38  0.26  -  -
     Proportion White  -  -  -  -  0.81  0.17
     Poverty Rate  0.22  0.11  0.19  0.10  0.10  0.06
Extralocal Neighborhood Variables            
     Proportion non-Hispanic Black  0.04  0.16  -  -  -  -
     Proportion Hispanic  -  -  0.36  0.27  -  -
     Proportion White  -  -  -  -  0.09  0.25
     Poverty Rate  0.03  0.08  0.18  0.10  0.02  0.05
     Number of Persons    2,097    1,476    5,784
     Number of Person-years    19,952    14,926    50,584

Note: SD is standard deviation.