Table 3.
Percent of displaced New Orleans residents aged 18+ years returned to New Orleans
| Variable | Returned to New Orleans? |
Total | Design-based F-test | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||
| Race | ||||
| Black | 51% | 49% | 100% | 4.07** |
| White/other | 71% | 29% | 100% | |
| Educationa | ||||
| Less than college graduate | 52% | 48% | 100% | 4.24** |
| College graduate | 71% | 29% | 100% | |
| Age | ||||
| <40 years | 50% | 50% | 100% | 3.79* |
| ≥40 years | 66% | 34% | 100% | |
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 62% | 38% | 100% | |
| Male | 54% | 46% | 100% | 2.52 |
| State of birth | ||||
| Louisiana | 54% | 46% | 100% | 2.48 |
| Other state | 70% | 30% | 100% | |
| Marital statusa | ||||
| Not married | 57% | 43% | 100% | 0.13 |
| Married | 60% | 40% | 100% | |
| Employment statusa | ||||
| Employed | 63% | 37% | 100% | 2.35 |
| Unemployed or out of labor force | 49% | 51% | 100% | |
| Housing tenurea | ||||
| Owned | 62% | 38% | 100% | 1.25 |
| Rented | 51% | 49% | 100% | |
| Housing damage due to Katrina | ||||
| Undamaged | 96% | 4% | 100% | 10.48*** |
| Damaged but habitable | 81% | 19% | 100% | |
| Uninhabitable | 54% | 46% | 100% | |
| Destroyed | 30% | 70% | 100% | |
| Full sample | 58% | 42% | 100% | |
| Observations | 291 | |||
Source: Authors’ calculations using data from the 2006 Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Survey (DNORPS)
a
Pre-Katrina status
*
p < .10;
**
p < .05;
***
p < .01