Table 2.

Individual-Level Independent Variables: Descriptive Statistics

Characteristic	Mean	Standard Error	Characteristic	Mean	Standard Error
Age 18–24 years	0.19	0.004	Good self-rated health	0.31	0.005
Age 25–34 years	0.33	0.005	Fair self-rated health	0.11	0.003
Age 35–44 years	0.25	0.004	Poor self-rated health	0.03	0.001
Age 45–64 years	0.15	0.003	Excellent self-rated mental health	0.37	0.005
Age 55–64 years	0.08	0.003	Very good self-rated mental health	0.30	0.005
Less than high school	0.47	0.005	Good self-rated mental health	0.28	0.005
High school graduate or GED	0.30	0.005	Fair or poor self-rated mental health	0.06	0.002
Some college	0.15	0.004	Vision problem/blindness	0.04	0.002
College graduate	0.08	0.003	Hearing problem/deafness	0.03	0.002
Female	0.48	0.005	Cognitive limitation	0.02	0.001
Married	0.57	0.005	Social limitation	0.02	0.001
Divorced/separated	0.10	0.003	Functional limitation	0.04	0.002
Widowed	0.02	0.001	Anxiety	0.02	0.001
Never married	0.31	0.005	Arthropathies	0.04	0.002
Family size	3.94	0.020	Asthma	0.02	0.001
Uninsured	0.37	0.005	Depression	0.05	0.002
Public insurance	0.11	0.003	Diabetes	0.05	0.002
Income <1 × FPL	0.20	0.004	Disease of lipid metabolism	0.03	0.002
Income 1–2 × FPL	0.30	0.005	Hypertension	0.06	0.002
Income 2–4 × FPL	0.33	0.005	Migraine	0.02	0.002
Income >4 × FPL	0.16	0.004	Other chronic condition	0.03	0.002
Interview in Spanish	0.44	0.005	1996	0.12	0.003
U.S. born	0.46	0.005	1997	0.12	0.003
Foreign born, lived in the United States >5 years	0.33	0.005	1998	0.13	0.004
Foreign born, lived in the United States <5 years	0.06	0.002	1999	0.14	0.004
Foreign born, missing years in the United States	0.10	0.003	2000	0.15	0.004
Missing foreign born	0.05	0.003	2001	0.17	0.004
Excellent self-rated health	0.25	0.005	2002	0.17	0.004
Very good self-rated health	0.30	0.005

FPL, federal poverty line.