Adolescent outcomes and opportunities in a Canadian province: looking at siblings and neighbors

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Predicting educational achievement and health status

		Language arts index		Health status (ADG morbidity score)
		R-square: .200		R-square: .043
Predictors	%	Beta	p	Beta	p
Maternal age at first birth: 15 and under	1.83%	-0.237	<.0001	0.154	0.3173
16–17	7.71%	-0.187	<.0001	-0.004	0.9671
18–19	13.46%	-0.113	<.0001	-0.066	0.3711
20–21 (reference)	15.13%	0.000	--	0.000	--
22–23	16.11%	0.138	<.0001	0.090	0.1991
24–25	15.53%	0.259	<.0001	0.238	0.0008
26 and over	29.80%	0.356	<.0001	0.332	<.0001
Missing	0.43%	-0.339	<.0001	-0.492	0.2956
Group p-value (7 df)			<.0001		<.0001
Number of residential moves between age 8 and 17.5:
Zero (reference)	56.22%	0.000	--	0.000	--
One	24.00%	-0.026	0.0001	0.386	<.0001
Two	9.79%	-0.117	<.0001	0.730	<.0001
Three	4.54%	-0.190	<.0001	1.147	<.0001
Four	2.33%	-0.245	<.0001	1.422	<.0001
Five or more	3.12%	-0.297	<.0001	2.432	<.0001
Group p-value (5 df)			<.0001		<.0001
Birth order	2.02^a	-0.044	<.0001	-0.038	0.0777
Number of children in family	3.05^a	-0.104	<.0001	-0.670	<.0001
Married at birth of child	81.51%	0.306	<.0001	0.199	0.0005
Missing marital status	0.70%	0.166	0.0015	-0.283	0.4435
Not on Income Assistance age 8 to 17.5	88.87%	0.341	<.0001	-1.910	<.0001
N		105,438		105,438

^aMean value.
The full sample of children born from 1978 to 1987 (except those born in 1983) was included in this table.

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