Sentences with phrase «few socioeconomic groups»

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And, as I argued a few weeks ago, it's extremely likely that student behavior does in fact vary across different subgroups — not because of race, but because of the vastly different socioeconomic circumstances that children of different groups are facing.

-- Adolescents born to women who received nurse visits during pregnancy and postnatally and who were unmarried and from households of low socioeconomic status (risk factors for antisocial behavior), in contrast with those in the comparison groups, reported fewer instances (incidence) of running away (0.24 vs 0.60; P =.003), fewer arrests (0.20 vs 0.45; P =.03), fewer convictions and violations of probation (0.09 vs 0.47; P <.001), fewer lifetime sex partners (0.92 vs 2.48; P =.003), fewer cigarettes smoked per day (1.50 vs 2.50; P =.10), and fewer days having consumed alcohol in the last 6 months (1.09 vs 2.49; P =.03).