Table 1 Sample sociodemographic characteristics at baseline, overall, and by previous arrest (N = 646)
From: HIV-related risk among justice-involved young African American women in the U.S. South
| Â | Total | Never Arrested | Arrested | Â | Â | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | (N = 646) | (N = 492) | (N = 154) |  |  | |||
| Â | N | % | N | % | N | % | \(\chi^2\) | p-value |
Age |  |  |  |  |  |  | 43.65* |  < 0.001 |
 18–20 | 292 | (45.2) | 258 | (52.4) | 34 | (22.1) |  |  |
 21–25 | 354 | (54.8) | 234 | (47.6) | 120 | (77.9) |  |  |
Main partner, past 3Â months | 511 | (79.1) | 374 | (76.0) | 137 | (89.0) | 11.89* | 0.001 |
Have child(ren) | 234 | (36.2) | 138 | (28.0) | 96 | (62.3) | 59.69* |  < 0.001 |
Completed some college or higher | 334 | (51.7) | 272 | (55.3) | 62 | (40.3) | 10.60* | 0.001 |
Currently in school | 330 | (51.1) | 282 | (57.3) | 48 | (31.2) | 32.09* |  < 0.001 |
Employed | 375 | (58.0) | 288 | (58.5) | 87 | (56.5) | 0.20 | 0.654 |
Currently unstably housed | 86 | (13.3) | 44 | (8.9) | 42 | (27.3) | 34.15* |  < 0.001 |
Food insecurity | 166 | (25.7) | 117 | (23.8) | 49 | (31.8) | 3.97* | 0.046 |