Table 5 Demographics for All Three Centers
From: The basic research factors questionnaire for studying early childhood caries
Centers | Sample size | Caregiver relation to the child (%) | Caregiver education (%) | Caregiver Poverty Status (%) | Caregiver race/ethnicity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UCD (Study I + Study II) | 1603 | Mother | 84.0 | <HS | 24.9 | Below FPL | 78.6 | American Indian (several different tribal affiliations) |
Father | 10.4 | HS or GED | 32.5 | Above FPL | 21.4 | |||
Other | 5.5 | >HS | 32.5 | |||||
College grad+ | 10.1 | Missing | 0 | |||||
BU study | 1036 | Mother | 94.7 | <HS | 22.3 | Below FPL | 88.9 | White Hispanic, White Non-Hispanic, Black Hispanic, and Black Non-Hispanic |
Father | 1.6 | HS/GED | 26.5 | Above FPL | 11.1 | |||
Other | 3.7 | >HS | 22.3 | |||||
College grad + | 28.9 | Missing | 7.0 | |||||
UCSF study | 597 | Mother | 88.1 | <HS | 37.8 | Below FPL | 74.8 | Mostly White Hispanic, but also Asian, White Non-Hispanic, Black Hispanic, and Black Non-Hispanic |
Father | 5.9 | HS/GED | 35.3 | Above FPL | 25.2 | |||
Grandmother | 3.9 | >HS | 17.2 | |||||
Other | 2.1 | College grad + | 9.6 | Missing | 25.0 | |||