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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2019 Mar 28;91(3):846–860. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13239

Table 1. Descriptive statistics for sample characteristics (N = 94).

M SD
Child age (years) 7.03 1.29
Parental education (years) 14.14 2.64
Family income-to-needs ratio 2.68 2.79
Letter-Word Identification subtest standard score 110.72 13.90
Word Attack subtest standard score 109.05 11.77
Passage Comprehension subtest standard score 103.40 11.75
% n
Child sex (female) 60.64 57
Child race/ethnicity
 African American, non-Hispanic/Latino 30.85 29
 Hispanic/Latino 50.00 47
 White, non-Hispanic/Latino 13.83 13
 Other 5.32 5
Family income below U.S. poverty thresholda 29.79 28
Parent proficient in a second languageb 55.29 47
Child exposed to a second language but not proficientc 26.09 24
Child proficient in a second languagec 15.22 14
a

defined as an income-to-needs ratio < 1.00

b

data for 8 families were missing

c

data for 2 families were missing