Table 4.

Gender Differences in the Association Between All-Cause Mortality Hazard and Education Adjusting for Marital Status

	Non-Hispanic White		Non-Hispanic Black
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Education, 12 years as reference category
0–8	1.26**	1.22–1.30	1.22**	1.13–1.31
9–11	1.23**	1.19–1.27	1.21**	1.11–1.31
13–15	0.92**	0.89–0.95	0.88*	0.79–0.97
16	0.72**	0.69–0.75	0.70**	0.60–0.81
17–20	0.63**	0.60–0.65	0.64**	0.55–0.76
Education by female interaction
0–8 * female	0.98	0.93–1.02	0.96	0.87–1.07
9–11 * female	1.02	0.98–1.08	1.00	0.90–1.12
13–15* female	0.98	0.93–1.02	1.02	0.88–1.19
16 * female	1.06	1.00–1.13	1.04	0.85–1.27
17–20 * female	1.07	1.00–1.16	1.00	0.78–1.29
Marital status (ref.=married)
Divorced	1.49**	1.44–1.53	1.27**	1.20–1.35
Widowed	1.25**	1.22–1.27	1.20**	1.13–1.28
Never married	1.49**	1.44–1.55	1.55**	1.45–1.65
Unknown marital status	0.97	0.75–1.26	0.96	0.57–1.61
Control variables
Female	0.60**	0.58–0.62	0.60**	0.56–0.65
Age	1.09**	1.09–1.09	1.07**	1.07–1.07
Age by female	1.00**	1.00–1.00	1.00	1.00–1.00
Midwest	1.01	0.99–1.04	1.06	0.99–1.14
South	1.09**	1.06–1.12	1.10**	1.03–1.17
West	1.02	0.99–1.05	1.00	0.91–1.11
Year of interview	1.00	1.00–1.00	1.00	1.00–1.01

^**P<0.01

^*P<0.05, 2-sided

Models are adjusted for sampling design.