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

BMC Public Health

Table 8 Means, proportions, and sibling correlations by change in mother’s marital status

	Change in marital status of mother by age 17 of oldest child
	No changes		At least one change
Outcomes	N = 20,082		N = 9,590
Continuous outcomes (mean)
Language arts index^†	0.095	(0.081–0.110)	-0.183	(-.202–-0.164)
Health status (ADG morbidity score)^†	8.833	(8.748–8.918)	9.656	(9.529–9.783)
Hospital and physician costs^†	$1,002	($953–$1,050)	$1,396	($1,255–$1,537)
Binary outcomes (proportion)
Not in grade 12 at appropriate age^†	0.262	(0.256–0.269)	0.391	(0.381–0.400)
Teenage pregnancy^†	0.101	(0.095–0.107)	0.199	(0.188–0.210)
Received income assistance (age 18–19)^†	0.035	(0.032–0.038)	0.088	(0.083–0.094)
Sibling correlations
Continuous outcomes
Language arts index^†	0.561	(0.547–0.575)	0.514	(0.494–0.534)
Health status (ADG morbidity score)	0.476	(0.461–0.492)	0.490	(0.469–0.511)
Hospital and physician costs	0.287	(0.269–0.306)	0.280	(0.255–0.306)
Binary outcomes
Not in grade 12 at appropriate age^†	0.679	(0.658–0.700)	0.563	(0.529–0.597)
Teenage pregnancy*	0.555	(0.500–0.609)	0.451	(0.386–0.516)
Received income assistance (age 18–19)	0.655	(0.606–0.704)	0.603	(0.552–0.654)

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