. 2020 Nov 5;190(4):553–561. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa245

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Black College Attendees, Full Sample and According to Institutional Attendance, From Waves I, III, and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Waves I, III, and IV, United States, 1994–2009^a

	Full Sample (n = 727)		PWI (n = 551)		HBCU (n = 176)
Variable	Proportion	Mean (SD)	Proportion	Mean (SD)	Proportion	Mean (SD)	T Statistic for Difference
Metabolic syndrome	0.29		0.31		0.23		−1.93^b
HBCU vs. PWI	0.32
School, proportion Black		0.39 (0.27)		0.34 (0.24)		0.57 (0.28)	10.81^c
Neighborhood, proportion Black		0.50 (0.34)		0.47 (0.34)		0.59 (0.32)	4.31^c
Age, years		14.95 (1.69)		15.08 (1.67)		14.53 (1.66)	−3.75^c
Female sex	0.64		0.66		0.58		−1.95^b
Census region
Northeast	0.14		0.16		0.05		−3.59^c
Midwest	0.22		0.21		0.28		2.20^d
South	0.19		0.23		0.03		−5.89^c
West	0.45		0.40		0.64		5.17^c
Urbanicity
Urban	0.53		0.52		0.57		1.25
Suburban	0.28		0.30		0.22		−2.14^d
Rural	0.19		0.18		0.21		0.85
Private (vs. public) college	0.21		0.18		0.30		3.52^c
Graduated college	0.57		0.54		0.68		3.38^c
Childhood disadvantage
Family		1.27 (0.95)		1.31 (0.98)		1.13 (0.86)	−2.20^d
School		2.77 (1.93)		2.75 (1.92)		2.85 (1.96)	0.58
Neighborhood		2.08 (1.90)		1.92 (1.87)		2.57 (1.91)	4.12^c
Childhood health
Obesity	0.18		0.18		0.16		−0.31
Diabetes	0.09		0.10		0.09		0.00
Self-rated health
Excellent	0.33		0.34		0.32		−0.34
Very good	0.40		0.40		0.39		−0.17
Good	0.20		0.19		0.23		1.39
Fair or poor	0.07		0.08		0.05		−1.21

Abbreviations: HBCU, Historically Black College or University; PWI, predominately White institution; SD, standard deviation.

^a Descriptive statistics generated using imputed values for covariates. P values are from 2-tailed tests.

^b P < 0.1.

^c P < 0.001.

^d P < 0.05.