Research Article

Neighborhood Social Capital, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Change of Neighborhood as Predictors of School Readiness

Table 1

Predicting repeated exposures to household or neighbourhood disadvantage from age 1 to age 5.

ā€‰Interval estimate (95%)
EstimateLowerUpper

Child household ever below LICO27.7%25.6%29.8%3.9
Child ever in a census tract with more than 32% below LICO8.1%6.8%9.4%8.4
Child in a household below LICO three times out of three7.1%5.8%8.4%9.2
Child in census tract with more than 32% below LICO on all three occasions4.3%3.3%5.3%12.0
Child ever in a neighbourhood judged unfavourably on neighbours score 12.3%10.7%13.8%6.4
Child in a neighbourhood judged unfavourably on all three occasions4.2%3.3%5.1%11.0
Child changed residence between cycles 3 and 537.2%34.7%39.7%3.4
Child changed residence between cycles 4 and 519.4%17.4%21.3%5.1

CV is coefficient of variation.
Followup of one-year-olds to age 5 from 1998-99 to 2002-3.
NLSCY data with longitudinal weights.