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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Jan 13;68(5):807–813. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.029

Table 2.

Rank-order correlations among SES variables, by race.

Educationa Family income Assetsb Subjective social status Neighborhood SESc
Educationa - 0.34** 0.48**** 0.05 0.18
Family income 0.46**** - 0.80**** −0.21 0.41***
Assetsb 0.31** 0.42*** - −0.10 0.39***
Subjective social status 0.12 −0.10 0.14 - −0.04
Neighborhood SESc 0.67**** 0.47**** 0.22 0.04 -

Note: correlations for African Americans above the diagonal, Caucasians below the diagonal.

p < 0.10

**

p < 0.01

***

p < 0.001

****

p < 0.0001

a

Higher of two parents for two parent households.

b

Sum of number of cars, homeowner status, number of bedrooms, number of insurance policies, number of loans.

c

Mean of census-derived % nonpoor and % ≥high school education.

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