Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics (n = 1,231)
| Childhood SES |
Adult SES |
SES Trajectories |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sample | Low | High | Low | High | Persistent Low | Upward Mobility | Downward Mobility | Persistent High | |
| Socioeconomic Status (SES) | |||||||||
| Low Childhood SES (1 = mom <high school) | 0.53 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.36 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Low Adult SES (1 ≤ college) | 0.67 | 0.78 | 0.54 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 |
| Persistent Low SES | 0.41 | 0.78 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Upward Mobility | 0.12 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Downward Mobility | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.54 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 |
| Persistent High SES | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Female | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.48 | 0.56 | 0.42 | 0.59 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 0.44 |
| Non-Hispanic white | 0.47 | 0.32 | 0.65 | 0.36 | 0.70 | 0.26 | 0.53 | 0.53 | 0.78 |
| African-American | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.15 |
| Hispanic | 0.31 | 0.46 | 0.15 | 0.41 | 0.13 | 0.52 | 0.25 | 0.22 | 0.06 |
| Age | 69.55 (9.35) | 70.64 (9.37) | 68.31(9.18) | 69.78(9.33) | 69.09(9.40) | 70.50(9.29) | 71.12(9.68) | 66.61(9.28) | 67.97(9.07) |
Note: Means with standard deviations in parentheses are shown for continuous variables, and proportions are shown for categorical variables.