We also could not control
for or analyze socioeconomic factors in the present
analyses due to the absence of measures of familial socioeconomic status; however, the National American Indian Adolescent Health Survey is the largest and most comprehensive database available on rural, reservation - based American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and there is
little reason to believe that a representative
sample of school - based, rural American Indian adolescents would yield findings substantially different from those presented here.18