Table 2.
Means and Standard Deviations for Sociodemographic Characteristics of Marshallese Mothers, Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, 1997–2013 (n=91,622)
NH White (n=65,800) | NH Black (n=1,680) | Hispanic (n=21,654) | Marshallese (n=2,488) | ||||||
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
Maternal age | 26.6 | 5.7 | 26.2 | 5.8 | 26.4 | 6.1 | 25.8 | 5.2 | <0.01 |
Maternal education | 13.5 | 2.3 | 13.8 | 2.3 | 9.8 | 3.3 | 11.3 | 1.5 | <0.01 |
Parity | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 1.9 | <0.01 |
NH=Non-Hispanic; SD=Standard deviation.