Table 1.

Weighted Means/Proportions, by Race-ethnicity and Gender; NLSY97, Wave 1, 1997 (N=6,873)

	WM	WW	BM	BW	HM	HW
BMI	21.700	21.069*†	22.558*	23.209*†	22.755*	21.882*†
SES of Origin
Parental Education	13.550	13.555	12.429*	12.470*	11.057*	10.993*
Parental Wealth	8.270	8.132	6.151*	6.271*	5.959*	6.122*
Age	14.979	15.027	15.012	15.003	15.120*	14.912†
Controls
Two Parent Household	.781	.755	.449*	.445*	.684*	.674*
Proportion of Waves Missing	.149	.136	.134	.078*†	.161*	.121*†
Urban Residence	.619	.609	.731*	.786*†	.880*	.891*
Incarcerated (in 1998)	.004	.001*†	.012*	.000*†	.006*	.000*
Missing on Parental Wealth	.167	.172	.198*	.166	.279*	.243*
N	1989	1808	857	802	753	664

Note: BMI=body-mass index; SES=socioeconomic status; NLSY97= National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort;

WM, WW, BM, BW, HM, HW refer to white men, white women, black men, black women, Hispanic men, and Hispanic women, respectively.

^*p < .05 for comparison of racial/ethnic-gender group to white men

^†p < .05 for comparison of men and women within racial/ethnic groups