Table 2.

Prevalence of reporting a family member having died before 65 years by demographic characteristics

Demographic variables	Number of subjects	Crude prevalence (%)	Adjusted prevalence (%)*	SE	P value
Sex
Female	9367	49.7	50.0	0.5	Referent
Male	7970	43.9	43.5	0.6	< 0.0001
Race
White	12 964	46.9	46.1	0.4	Referent
Black	789	57.5	59.2	1.8	< 0.0001
Hispanic	1942	43.7	45.9	1.2	0.86
Asian	1244	45.7	48.5	1.4	0.095
Am Indian	63	49.2	49.2	6.2	0.6238
Other	335	49.3	52.4	2.7	0.024
Education
No high school diploma	1251	52.0	49.7	1.4	Referent
HS graduate	3044	48.7	46.7	0.9	0.08
Some college	6220	48.3	48.5	0.6	0.45
College	6822	44.2	45.3	0.6	0.0056
Age group
19–34	1721	36.5	35.2	1.2	Referent
35–49	4494	42.8	42.6	0.7	< 0.0001
50–64	5534	47.9	48.0	0.7	< 0.0001
65 and older	5588	52.7	53.2	0.7	< 0.0001
Father's education†
No high school diploma	3611	51.2	49.3	0.9	Referent
HS graduate	1918	45.9	46.6	1.1	0.0611
Some college	1394	45.3	46.6	1.3	0.0972
College	1306	39.5	42.3	1.4	< .0001
Mother's education†
No high school diploma	3542	50.1	47.8	0.9	Referent
HS graduate	2549	48.3	49.4	1.0	0.2239
Some college	1388	42.6	44.4	1.4	0.0440
College	867	39.3	42.3	1.7	0.0077
Home ownership‡
Yes	6004	45.2	45.7	0.6	Referent
No	2497	51.9	50.7	1.0	< .0001
Total	17 337	47.0

*Adjusted for education, sex, race and age at the survey.

†Available only in wave II data only (total n = 8629; father's education, n = 8229; mother's education, n = 8346)

‡ Defined by question: "For most of your childhood, did your family own their home?" This information available only in wave I (total n = 8501).