Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for individual-level characteristics by ethnicity and gender

	White		Black		Mexican-American		Other ethnicity
	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male
N	2967	2526	2188	1854	1940	2033	365	279
Mean body mass index	26.25 (6.08)	26.42 (4.45)	28.99 (7.44)	26.44 (5.38)	27.99 (6.01)	26.94 (4.52)	26.65 (5.90)	25.46 (4.41)
Mean family poverty income ratio	3.06 (1.83)	3.37 (1.90)	1.91 (1.39)	2.19 (1.50)	1.76 (1.28)	1.89 (1.32)	2.00 (1.38)	2.20 (1.45)
Mean age	55.64 (20.44)	56.16 (20.13)	44.25 (17.33)	44.62 (17.47)	42.33 (17.27)	42.38 (17.52)	46.63 (17.65)	44.90 (18.39)
Employment status
%Employed	43.51	57.52	53.61	60.41	44.48	69.80	44.11	65.59
%Unemployed	4.21	3.52	5.90	9.98	5.00	9.39	6.03	10.39
%Not in the labor force	52.28	38.95	40.49	29.61	50.52	20.81	49.86	24.01
Education level
%Not a high school graduate	26.42	27.59	34.41	38.73	61.70	63.55	46.03	40.14
%High school graduate	35.86	27.32	36.93	34.09	23.61	20.02	22.74	24.37
%Some college	7.41	6.97	7.40	5.50	3.97	4.23	6.03	5.73
%College graduate	30.30	38.12	21.25	21.68	10.72	12.20	25.21	29.75
Nativity
%Foreign born	6.17	6.33	6.54	7.12	48.04	55.04	82.47	80.65
%Us born	93.83	93.67	93.46	92.88	51.96	44.96	17.53	19.35
Marital status
%Married	55.71	74.07	37.48	54.10	63.61	74.37	50.14	60.22
%Single	9.17	11.32	26.65	26.97	13.51	17.81	18.63	25.81
%Other	35.12	14.61	37.48	18.93	22.89	7.82	31.23	13.98

Note: Standard deviations in parenthesis.