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. 2019 Oct 28;9:100506. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100506

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the study variables (n = 14,004).

Total study sample
Sample stratified by: Involvement with child welfare services (ages 0–18)
Sample stratified by: Household dysfunction (ages 0–18)
Prevalence of deaths (row %)
Majority population
Not substantiated investigation
In-home services
Placement in OHC
Alcohol problems
Divorce
Mental illness
Incarceration
Death
n = 14,004
n = 11,100
n = 1354
n = 284
n = 1266
n = 608
n = 1514
n = 881
n = 255
n = 886
n = 1354
% % % % % % % % % %
Premature all-cause mortality (ages 19–65) 9.7 7.4 14.5 19.7 21.7 16.4 12.0 14.5 16.9 12.2
Gender: Female 49.0 52.9 25.8 24.6 45.6 50.5 50.4 46.5 51.4 48.9 7.4
Occupational class (age 0)
 Upper (middle) class 13.9 16.0 8.1 6.0 3.6 3.6 9.6 4.5 3.9 14.3 7.6
 Lower middle class 38.3 40.1 32.2 29.2 30.6 28.6 35.6 33.4 28.2 37.8 9.1
 Working class 47.8 43.9 59.7 64.8 65.8 67.8 54.8 62.1 67.8 47.9 10.7
 Missing informationa n = 494 n = 377 n = 46 n = 12 n = 59 n = 25 n = 47 n = 32 n = 11 n = 34
Marital status (age 0): Unmarried 6.2 4.1 7.8 13.7 21.1 16.6 9.3 14.5 18.4 5.9 14.1
Maternal age (age 0)
 <20 years 4.2 3.5 5.0 5.6 9.5 8.2 8.0 7.9 10.6 2.7 12.9
 20–34 years 80.1 80.6 79.5 80.3 76.0 76.5 81.7 76.5 80.8 65.3 9.6
 ≥35 years 15.7 15.9 15.5 14.1 14.5 15.3 10.3 15.6 8.6 31.9 9.2
 Missing informationa n = 15 n = 10 n = 2 n = 1 n = 2 n = 0 n = 0 n = 0 n = 0 n = 0
Household dysfunction (ages 0–18)
 Alcohol problems 4.3 2.4 7.7 16.9 14.8
 Divorce 10.8 8.1 14.0 27.5 27.5
 Mental illness 6.3 2.9 11.7 18.0 27.7
 Incarceration 1.8 1.1 3.0 4.9 6.5
 Death 6.3 5.5 7.8 10.6 11.1
a

Not included in the Cox regression models.