Demographic Characteristics
of the Full Sample
|
Demographic Characteristics of the Full Sample |
The combined follow-up sample in 1983 was 90.7% white, 50.6% male, and had an average of 12.6 years of maternal education (standard deviation = 2.3). As of the 1975 interviews, 81.0% of the families were intact; in 1986 when the children were 16.4 years old on average only 65.1% of the sample families were intact. The tables below provide the birth order, race, religion, poverty rates and residence of the combined sample, and sample age at the four time points.
Sample Age
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Mean |
Sd |
Range |
T1 |
5.5 |
2.8 |
1 - 10 |
T2 |
13.7 |
2.7 |
9 -18 |
T3 |
16.3 |
2.8 |
12-20 |
T4 |
22.1 |
2.7 |
17-28 |
Birth Order |
% |
First |
40.3 |
| Second | 25.8 |
| Later | 33.9 |
Race |
% |
White |
90.7 |
African-American |
8.0 |
Other |
1.3 |
Religion |
% |
| Catholic | 54.7 |
| Protestant | 39.1 |
| Jewish | 1.7 |
| Other | 4.6 |
Residence |
% |
| Rural/semirural | 32.1 |
| Town < 20,000 | 21.3 |
| 20,000 - 50,000 | 8.3 |
| Suburbs | 26.4 |
| City | 12.0 |
Family Income Percent Distribution at Three Time Points
The next tables present the family income distributions and poverty rates at the three time points. These show not only the effect of inflation, but the normal increase of income of the aging breadwinner(s).
Family Income |
N = 976 |
N = 778 |
N = 776 |
Time 1 |
Time 2 |
Time 3 |
|
1975 |
1983 |
1986 |
|
| Less than $6,000 | 10.8 |
5.4 |
3.8 |
| $6,000 to $10,000 | 15.0 |
8.0 |
4.7 |
| $10,000 to $15,000 | 33.3 |
13.4 | 9.5 |
| $15,000 to $20,000 | 22.1 | 11.6 | 7.2 |
| $20,000 to $25,000 | 11.1 | 14.0 | 11.4 |
| $25,000 to $35,000 | 7.71 | 23.1 | 25.0 |
| $35,000 to $50,000 | 15.2 | 20.9 | |
| $50,000 or more | 9.3 | 17.4 |
1In 1975, the top income category was $25,000 or more.
Families below the Poverty Line
| Time 1 | 12% |
| Time 2 | 16% |
| Time 3 | 11% |
| Time 1, 2 or 3 | 21% |
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