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. 2022 Jan 26;70(3):387–395. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.11.023

Table 1.

Demographics of ABCD study participants and the subset included in the current analysis

Variable Release 3.0 baseline data (N = 11,878) Survey 1 (N = 3,091) Survey 2 (N = 3,193) Survey 3 (N = 2,934)
Age (years), mean (range) 9.91 (9–11) 12.86 (11–14) 12.94 (11–14) 13.05 (11–14)
Sex
 Female 5,682 (47.8%) 1,530 (49.3%) 1,562 (48.9%) 1,435 (48.9%)
 Male 6,196 (52.1%) 1,561 (50.6%) 1,631 (51.0%) 1,499 (51.1%)
Racea
 White 8,244 (69.4%) 2,481 (80.2%) 2,521 (78.9%) 2,365 (80.6%)
 Black 1,895 (15.9%) 213 (6.8%) 267 (8.3%) 216 (7.36%)
 Asian 498 (4.1%) 170 (5.4%) 172 (5.3%) 168 (5.7%)
 Multiracial/Multiethnic 184 (1.5%) 27 (0.8%) 32 (1%) 26 (0.8%)
 Other 852 (7.1%) 167 (5.4%) 168 (5.2%) 128 (4.36%)
 Unknown/Not reported 205 (1.7%) 34 (1.0%) 33 (1.0%) 29 (0.9%)
Ethnicity
 Hispanic/Latino 2,411 (20.3%) 512 (16.5%) 523 (16.3%) 457 (15.5%)
 Not Hispanic 9,314 (78.4%) 2,545 (82.3%) 2,638 (82.5%) 2,446 (8.36%)
 Unknown/Not reported 143 (1.2%) 33 (1%) 34 (1%) 31 (1%)
Parental education
 <High school diploma 1,395 (11.7%) 40 (1.2%) 32 (1.0%) 32 (1.0%)
 High school diploma/GED 330 (2.7%) 174 (5.6%) 182 (5.5%) 160 (5.4%)
 Some college 3,080 (25.9%) 615 (19.8%) 673 (21.0%) 587 (20.0%)
 Bachelor's degree 3,015 (25.3%) 934 (30.2%) 978 (30.6%) 923 (31.4%)
 Postgraduate degree 4,044 (34.0%) 1,325 (42.8%) 1,323 (41.4%) 1,230 (42.1%)
 Unknown/not reported 14 (0.1%) 3 (<0.1%) 5 (<0.1%) 2 (<0.1%)

ABCD = Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development; GED = General Educational Development Test.

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Categories for race for the ABCD cohort were defined as in Goldstone et al. 2020.