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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Undoing resilience: immigrant status and poor health following incarceration

 

Grand Mean (SD) or %

Range

Dependent Variable

 Poor healtha

2.14 (.91)

1–5

Key Independent Variables

 Incarcerationa

6.70%

0–1

 Immigrant

6.03%

0–1

Control variables

 Offendinga

.64 (1.27)

0–10

 Alcohol abusea

1.13 (1.56)

0–6

 Depressive symptomsa

5.96 (4.12)

0–27

 Agea

20.30 (5.38)

11–33

 Male

45.46%

0–1

 Black

20.14%

0–1

 Hispanic

14.92%

0–1

 Native American

2.02%

0–1

 Asian and other nonwhite

5.96%

0–1

 English-speaking household

90.45%

0–1

 Parental economic hardship

18.00%

0–1

 U.S.-born parent

86.15%

0–1

 Neighborhood disorder

1.49 (.53)

1–3

 Early residential mobility

56.07%

0–1

 Verbal intelligence

100.99 (14.33)

14–146

  1. Descriptives are presented at the person-wave level
  2. N (person waves) = 31,202
  3. N (persons) = 7806
  4. aTime-varying variable