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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2018 Apr 30;207:89–96. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.049

Table 1.

Characteristics of Study Sample (N = 3,328), National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Mean or Percent Standard Deviation
Birth weight (grams, range = 992 – 5,330) 3282.50 569.17
Prenatal Smoking 21.66%
Family-of-origin socioeconomic status
 Level of parent’s education (range = 0 – 9) 5.02 2.15
 (Log) Parental income (range = 0 – 6.8) 3.40 .82
 Living with two biological parents 49.69%
Current smoker, Wave I 33.50%
Grade point average, Wave I (range = 1 – 4) 2.79 .74
Depressive symptomology, Wave I (range = 0 – 2.9) .78 .54
Binge drinking, Wave I (range = 0 – 6) .78 1.14
Race-Ethnicity
 non-Hispanic White (reference) 72.31%
 non-Hispanic Black 16.86%
 Hispanic 10.83%
Foreign-born 2.76%
Unmarried at birth 58.70%
Teen birth (1 = 19 or less, 0 = 20+) 32.42%
Infant is male 51.80%

Notes: Statistics are weighted and adjusted for clustering.