Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics, Analytic Sample

	Aged out	Reunified	Guardianship/ permanent relative placement
Child Characteristics
Femaleac	0.51	0.41	0.51
Whiteac	0.51	0.58	0.50
Blackac	0.34	0.23	0.31
Hispanic	0.08	0.09	0.10
American Indian	0.06	0.08	0.08
Other racec	0.02	0.02	0.01
Born 1987–1989abc	0.17	0.14	0.09
Born 1990–1992ab	0.36	0.34	0.31
Born 1993–1995a	0.37	0.33	0.36
Born 1996–1997abc	0.10	0.19	0.24
Received SSI as childab	0.22	0.17	0.16
CPS Alleged Maltreatment, prior to last removal
No known abuse or neglectac	0.35	0.48	0.35
Neglect onlyabc	0.16	0.13	0.24
Physical or emotional abuse onlyc	0.11	0.12	0.09
Sexual abuse only	0.07	0.07	0.06
Multiple typesabc	0.31	0.19	0.26
Total number of reportsac	1.69 (2.03)	1.16 (1.69)	1.53 (1.81)
Birth Family Characteristics
Mother’s age at first birthbc	20.81 (5.08)	21.05 (5.00)	20.07 (4.38)
Child was marital birthac	0.26	0.31	0.23
Child was nonmarital birthabc	0.59	0.53	0.67
Child birth status unknownbc	0.15	0.16	0.11
Biological family exposures between birth and last removal:
Percent months mother received food assistanceabc	0.37 (.29)	0.32 (.29)	0.41 (.29)
Mother’s average quarterly wages ($1,000s)ac	1.49 (2.24)	2.32 (2.85)	1.57 (2.34)
Mother’s percent quarters employedabc	.36 (.30)	.47 (.32)	.40 (.30)
Mother received welfareac	0.71	0.63	0.75
Mother incarceratedac	0.07	0.04	0.07
Father incarceratedabc	0.19	0.16	0.24
Father incarceration unknown (father not identified)ac	0.09	0.06	0.09
Foster Care Characteristics
Age at first OHC episodeabc	12.43 (4.53)	13.71 (3.26)	12.87 (3.67)
Logged time in careabc	6.95 (.70)	5.32 (1.33)	6.04 (1.10)
Pct. time in non-relative family foster careabc	0.54 (.38)	0.31 (.40)	0.26 (.37)
Pct. time in kin settingbc	0.17 (.30)	0.17 (.34)	0.60 (.42)
Pct. time in congregate settingabc	0.23 (.30)	0.36 (.42)	0.09 (.23)
History of placement in detentionabc	0.26	0.20	0.09
History of temporary/shelter placementsabc	0.55	0.42	0.26
Number of OHC episodesabc	1.90 (1.18)	1.63 (1.09)	1.48 (.82)
Number of OHC placementsabc	6.84 (6.02)	3.50 (3.54)	3.12 (3.07)

^aAged out significantly differs from reunified at p<.01;

^bAged out significantly differs from guardianship/permanent relative placement at p<.01;

^cReunified significantly differs from guardianship/permanent relative placement at p<.01