Table 1.

Baseline Weighted Descriptive Statistics of the Sample by Later-Life Child Bereavement

	Nonbereaved		Transition to bereavement		Significance
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Depressive symptoms	1.40	0.02	1.82	0.07	*
Age	59.50	0.07	65.21	0.27	*
Women	0.52		0.63		*
Race and ethnicity
White	0.80		0.73		*
Black	0.09		0.15		*
Hispanic	0.08		0.08		*
Other racial/ethnic groups	0.03		0.03
Years of education	13.05	0.03	11.99	0.09	*
Cohort
AHEAD	0.15		0.36		*
HRS	0.31		0.46		*
Warbabies	0.14		0.09		*
Boomer	0.40		0.09		*
Number of children	2.69	0.02	3.33	0.04	*
Socializing with neighbors	0.52		0.52
Volunteering	0.38		0.34		*
Logged family income	10.29	0.01	9.90	0.03	*
Married	0.72		0.67		*
Other family losses	0.40	0.01	0.54	0.02	*
Chronic conditions	0.20	0.00	0.36	0.02	*
Unweighted n	14,782		1,400

Notes: Column totals may not equal 100% due to rounding. Asterisks indicate the two groups are statistically different at p < .05 (two-tailed tests). The sample includes 16,182 adults. AHEAD = the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old Study; HRS = Health and Retirement Study; SD = standard deviation.