Table 1.
Weighted Descriptive Statistics of Sampled HIV Patients Aged 25–64 at Baseline
| Baseline | 1st Follow-up | 2nd Follow-up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Std. Err. | Mean | Std. Err. | Mean | Std. Err. | |
| HAART | 0.25 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 0.03 | 0.60 | 0.02 |
| Demographics | ||||||
| Age | 38.08 | 0.25 | 38.10 | 0.26 | 38.10 | 0.26 |
| Nonwhite | 0.48 | 0.03 | 0.50 | 0.03 | 0.50 | 0.03 |
| Female | 0.22 | 0.03 | 0.22 | 0.03 | 0.22 | 0.03 |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 0.23 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.03 |
| High school diploma | 0.28 | 0.01 | 0.28 | 0.01 | 0.28 | 0.02 |
| Some college | 0.29 | 0.02 | 0.29 | 0.02 | 0.29 | 0.02 |
| College degree or higher | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.03 |
| Insurance | ||||||
| Employment-based insurance | 0.25 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.03 |
| Self-bought insurance | 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
| Public insurance | 0.48 | 0.04 | 0.51 | 0.04 | 0.54 | 0.04 |
| Clinical Stage of the Infection | ||||||
| AIDS | 0.37 | 0.02 | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.02 |
| Symptomatic | 0.52 | 0.02 | 0.53 | 0.02 | 0.51 | 0.02 |
| CD4 lymphocyte count (cells per mm3) | 209.42 | 9.05 | 198.21 | 8.56 | 181.51 | 7.75 |
| Employment | ||||||
| Work now | 0.40 | 0.03 | 0.42 | 0.72 | 0.43 | 0.56 |
| Hours of work, if working | 37.99 | 0.97 | 38.10 | 0.72 | 38.08 | 0.56 |
Source: Authors' calculation using data from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS).
Notes: HCSUS is a national probability sample representing adult HIV patients active in care in early 1996.
Statistics are weighted to be nationally representative. For more information on how the weights are constructed, see note 3 or Duan et al. (1999).