Table 3.

Descriptive statistics by race/ethnicity, NLSY79 sample of women who conceived their first birth in 1985 or later

Variable	White		Black		Latina
	Mean	Std. dev.	Mean	Std. dev.	Mean	Std. dev.
Unintended first birth	0.15		0.37	***	0.21	a
Net wealth decile at conception	6.23	2.80	4.05	2.46***	4.96	2.87***a
Mother’s age at conception
20–24	0.19		0.30	**	0.29	*
25–29	0.48		0.36	*	0.39
30–34	0.26		0.26		0.21
35–45	0.08		0.08		0.11
Mother’s relationship at conception
Married	0.75		0.44	***	0.61	**a
Divorced, separated, widowed	0.14		0.06	*	0.14	a
Never married	0.11		0.50	***	0.24	***a
Low AFQT score	0.12		0.51	***	0.43	***
Mother’s education at conception
Less than high school	0.04		0.06		0.14	***a
High school	0.33		0.26		0.31
Some college	0.24		0.41	***	0.35
College or more education	0.39		0.26	**	0.21	**
Income at conception ($10,000)	10.32	21.08	5.72	15.40*	7.53	14.48
Mother’s family background
Mother had low education	0.19		0.38	***	0.68	***a
Lived with bio parents	0.83		0.54	***	0.72	*a
Born outside of US	0.03		0.06		0.23	***a
Lived in urban area (age 14)	0.79		0.87		0.87
Lived in the South (age 14)	0.27		0.55	***	0.29	a
No literacy materials in HH	0.02		0.10	***	0.18	***a
Catholic	0.41		0.13	***	0.87	***a
Liberal protestant	0.18		0.09	*	0.01	***a
Conservative protestant	0.28		0.65	***	0.06	***a
None or other religion	0.13		0.13		0.06	a
Year of conception	1990.10	3.97	1989.63	4.14	1989.99	4.81
Family size at conception	2.01	0.77	2.41	1.65***	2.71	1.86***
Observations	990		269		249

Asterisks indicate statistically significant difference relative to White;

^***p < 0.001,

^**p < 0.01,

^*p < 0.05

^aStatistically significant difference between Blacks and Latinas, p < 0.05