Civic Report No. 44 December 2004

Table 6. Means of Key Variables Affecting the Proportion of Children in Poverty, All Children, by Race, 1995 and 2002
	All		Black, non-Hispanic		Hispanic		White, non-Hispanic
	1995	2002	1995	2002	1995	2002	1995	2002
Proportion in poverty	0.1915	0.1498	0.3948	0.2997	0.3779	0.2608	0.0991	0.0800
Schooling of parent/caretaker (% dist.)
(HS dropout* )	(14.4)	(12.1)	(22.2)	(14.9)	(43.9)	(36.2)	(5.8)	(4.6)
HS grad./college 1–3	57.5	54.4	64.2	67.1	47.9	51.9	59.2	53.0
College grad. or more	28.1	33.5	13.6	18.1	8.2	12.0	35.0	42.4
# of children in HH	2.4	2.4	2.7	2.5	2.8	2.6	2.3	2.3
# of adults in HH	2.1	2.1	1.9	1.8	2.2	2.3	2.1	2.1
Living Arrangement and work interaction: (% dist.)
Two married parents
No parent works	1.4	1.1	0.5	1.0	2.3	1.6	1.0	1.0
Father only works	18.6	20.1	6.5	5.9	27.5	26.2	19.3	21.5
Mother only works	1.7	2.0	2.1	2.2	1.5	2.0	1.6	2.0
Both parents work	46.5	45.2	24.4	26.5	30.9	35.1	55.4	52.9
Single-mother household
Independent family
(Mother doesn’t work) *	(4.2)	(2.6)	(11.4)	(7.1)	(7.9)	(2.9)	(1.6)	(1.4)
Mother works	9.7	10.8	20.3	26.5	7.9	8.7	7.8	7.9
Mother/partner
Mother doesn’t work	0.6	0.6	0.9	0.7	0.9	1.1	0.5	0.4
Mother works	1.7	2.1	2.5	2.8	1.6	2.4	1.6	1.9
Mother no partner, other adults present
Mother doesn’t work	2.6	1.7	7.5	3.5	4.5	3.0	1.0	0.8
Mother works	5.1	5.1	10.1	10.7	6.0	6.2	3.7	3.4
Single-father household
Father doesn’t work	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3
Father works	3.5	4.2	3.7	3.8	3.4	5.2	3.5	3.9
No parent in household
No working adult	0.8	0.8	2.9	2.4	0.9	0.8	0.2	0.3
1 or more working adults	3.4	3.4	6.6	6.3	4.6	4.6	2.5	2.3
Hourly wage rate for HS grad. or less in state (in 2002 dollars)
12.2	13.0	12.0	12.8	12.3	13.0	12.2	13.0
* Variables in parentheses (in italics) are the reference group for the category. The data are derived from the March Current Population Survey, 1996 and 2003.

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