Table 1.

Weighted descriptive statistics, by racialized group

	Black	Mexican American	White
Health Measures
Self-rated health	3.10*	3.26*	2.67
Cumulative biological risk (latent)	.11*	.10*	–.04
Functional limitations	3.37*	3.10*	2.53
Mediators
Education (years)	12.38*	11.06*	13.32
Income (logged)	10.01*	9.69*	10.82
Wealth (logged)	7.26*	8.50*	11.26
Chronic stressors	2.96*	2.64	2.40
Financial strain	2.47*	2.43*	1.95
Neighborhood disorder	3.25*	3.10*	2.36
Neighborhood mistrust	3.16*	2.99*	2.42
Discrim. (everyday)	1.80*	1.62	1.62
Discrim. (2+ attributions)	.41*	.26	.21
Discrim. (major)	.86*	.43	.47
Traumas	1.18	1.16	1.18
Controls
Age	64.28*	63.31*	66.32
Female	.60*	.54	.54
Marital status (1 = married)	.51*	.76	.75
Private health insurance	.39*	.29*	.51
Pharmacotherapy	.87*	.81	.78
n	7,969	1,620	25,315

Notes: Means for dummy variables can be interpreted as the proportion of the sample coded 1 on that indicator. Values are based on information from respondents’ first interview. Welch–Satterthwaite t tests were computed for difference in means with unequal variances.

^*p < .05 for comparison of racial group to Whites