TABLE 1.

Characteristics of Student Participants From the Reducing health Inequities through Social and Educational change (RISE) Analysis Sample: Los Angeles County, CA, 2013

	% or Mean (SE)
Outcome
Times truant in the last 30 d
Never	73.4
Sometimes	17.2
Chronic	9.5
Perceived environment
Neighborhood quality (scale = 5-20)	13.4 (0.08)
Personal attention from teachers (scale = 5-20)	16.8 (0.08)
Teachers, classes, and other students focus on preparing students for college (scale = 5-20)	16.5 (0.08)
Do not feel safe at school	9.1
Social influences
Parenting style
Neglectful	44.0
Indulgent	16.2
Authoritative	23.2
Authoritarian	26.6
Have at least some close friends who dropped out of school	41.0
Individual influences
Level of student engagement (scale = 16-64)	51.8 (0.20)
Depression
None	71.3
Mild	20.9
Severe	7.8
Grade point average
Do not know	4.4
< 2.0	7.0
2.0-3.0	43.9
> 3.0	44.8
Smoked marijuana in the past 30 d	20.4
Drank alcohol in the past 30 d	33.2
Demographics
Age, y	16.4 (0.04)
Male	44.9
At least 1 parent is a high school graduate	51.2
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic	84.3
Black	12.3
Other	3.4

Note. Descriptive statistics are reported for the sample of RISE participants who reported being currently enrolled in school and had no missing data for the outcome of interest (times truant in the last 30 d). The sample size was n = 909.