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Table 1 Sample Characteristics by Housing Status

From: Health and adverse childhood experiences among homeless youth

 

Housed

n = 112,750 (94.5%)

Family Homeless

n = 5273 (4.4%)

Unaccompanied Homeless

n = 1231 (1.0%)

Sex

 Male

55,466 (49.3%)

2883 (54.9%)

705 (57.7%)

 Female

57,043 (50.7%)

2364 (45.1%)

516 (42.3%)

Grade

 8th

39,643 (35.2%)

2530 (48.0%)

371 (30.1%)

 9th

40,191 (35.6%)

1876 (35.6%)

391 (31.8%)

 11th

32,916 (29.2%)

867 (16.4%)

469 (38.1%)

Free/reduced lunch

28,970 (25.9%)

2605 (49.9%)

583 (47.7%)

Metro

59,636 (52.9%)

2726 (51.7%)

599 (48.7%)

Race/ethnicity

 NH American Indian

1210 (1.1%)

137 (2.6%)

51 (4.2%)

 NH Asian/Pacific Isl.

6409 (5.7%)

601 (11.5%)

57 (4.7%)

 NH Black

5988 (5.3%)

460 (8.8%)

93 (7.7%)

 NH Multiracial

8090 (7.2%)

485 (9.3%)

170 (14.0%)

 Hispanic

10,013 (8.9%)

779 (14.9%)

164 (13.5%)

 NH White

80,306 (71.7%)

2765 (52.9%)

679 (55.9%)

ACEs

 0 ACEs

74,002 (65.9%)

2287 (43.7%)

177 (14.5%)

 1 ACE

21,315 (19.0%)

1173 (22.4%)

244 (20.0%)

 2 ACEs

9408 (8.4%)

719 (13.7%)

193 (15.8%)

 3 ACEs

4545 (4.0%)

509 (9.7%)

205 (16.8%)

 4 ACEs

2057 (1.8%)

303 (5.8%)

178 (14.6%)

 5 ACEs

894 (0.8%)

172 (3.3%)

161 (13.2%)

 6 ACEs

152 (0.1%)

67 (1.3%)

62 (5.1%)

  1. ACE Adverse Childhood Experience, NH Non-Hispanic