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

^aHigher of two parents for two parent households.

^bSum of number of cars, homeowner status, number of bedrooms, number of insurance policies, number of loans.

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