Table 1.
Characteristic | Total (n = 15,620) |
Trajectory |
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Temporary (n = 9,467) |
Transition to Incarceration (n = 1,343) |
Transition to Homelessness (n = 1,793) |
Transition From Incarceration (n = 1,293) |
Transition From Homelessness (n = 1,033) |
Continuously Homeless (n = 691) |
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
Exposure in 2001–2003 | ||||||||||||||
Median no. incarceration events | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
Median no. days in jail | 54 | 34 | 301 | 39 | 259 | 26 | 22 | |||||||
Median no. of days in jail days incarceration | 25 | 19 | 82 | 19 | 83 | 12 | 11 | |||||||
Median no. of shelter stays | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 21 | |||||||
Median no. of days in shelters | 42 | 20 | 32 | 273 | 20 | 314 | 662 | |||||||
Median shelter days per shelter event | 8 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 29 | 33 | |||||||
Age as of June 30, 2002, years | ||||||||||||||
18–24 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | |||||||
25–34 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 21 | 15 | |||||||
35–44 | 41 | 40 | 45 | 40 | 46 | 41 | 39 | |||||||
45–54 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 25 | 32 | |||||||
55–89 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||||||
Sexa | ||||||||||||||
Male | 90 | 90 | 92 | 90 | 91 | 90 | 89 | |||||||
Female | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||||
Race/ethnicitya | ||||||||||||||
Non-Hispanic white | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | |||||||
Non-Hispanic black | 62 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 64 | 66 | 69 | |||||||
Hispanic | 30 | 31 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 24 | |||||||
Asian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Other/unknown | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Nativitya | ||||||||||||||
United States born | 90 | 89 | 91 | 88 | 94 | 88 | 88 | |||||||
Foreign born | 10 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 12 | |||||||
Neighborhood poverty levelb | ||||||||||||||
Low (<10) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
Medium (10 to <20) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 15 | |||||||
High (20 to <30) | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | |||||||
Very high (≥30) | 40 | 40 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 40 | 35 | |||||||
Missing | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 38 | |||||||
Type of criminal charges | ||||||||||||||
Drug possession | 37 | 34 | 51 | 35 | 46 | 35 | 43 | |||||||
Drug sales | 21 | 18 | 31 | 19 | 35 | 14 | 22 | |||||||
Violence | 32 | 30 | 46 | 33 | 40 | 30 | 28 | |||||||
Public administration | 31 | 30 | 40 | 31 | 36 | 30 | 29 | |||||||
Property | 41 | 37 | 60 | 39 | 53 | 40 | 44 | |||||||
Weapons | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
Quality of life | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | |||||||
Sex crimes | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
Substance usec | 41 | 37 | 54 | 42 | 49 | 39 | 51 | |||||||
Serious mental illnessc | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
a Because we did not include a small number of subjects among adults with incarceration who had missing data (sex, 1%; race/ethnicity, 1%; nativity, 1%), the sum of these numbers does not match the total numbers of individuals.
b Parenthetical values are the percentages of the neighborhood population who live below the poverty line.
c Proxy measures (in which substance use was defined as being charged with drug possession or transferred to a substance use treatment clinic and serious mental illness was defined as being transferred to a state psychiatric hospital or mental health treatment clinics) were used to capture substance use and prior severe mental illness.