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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2009 Jun;18(2):69–83. doi: 10.1002/mpr.279

Table 3.

Ratios of design-based variance estimates of selected descriptive statistics in the household sample (H) relative to the school sample (S)

Variance ratios
Mean Trimmed meana Median
I. DSM-IV/CIDI disorder prevalence estimatesb
  Prevalence 6.9 6.2 7.5
II. Predictive effects of socio-demographic variables on disorder prevalencec
  Age 7.6 6.6 7.1
  Sex 5.9 6.0 5.1
  Race-ethnicity 4.1 3.2 2.6
  Parent education 5.1 5.0 4.8
a

Mean among observations in the 25th–75th percentile range on the distribution of variance ratios.

b

Lifetime, 12-month, and 30-day prevalence estimates of any DSM-IV/CIDI mood disorder, anxiety disorder, impulse-control disorder, substance disorder, and any disorder.

c

Based on multivariate logistic regression equations to predict each of the 15 outcomes in Part I of the table.