Table 3.

Characteristics of Adult Non–Household Heads and Their Households, New Orleans and the United States^a (Percentages of All Adult Non–Household Heads in New Orleans or in Metropolitan United States)

				New Orleansb				United Statesc
	Habitabled	versus United States	Uninhabitabled	versus United States	versus Habitable	All	versus United States
Residence is owned	67.9		76.6			73.8		76.3
χ2e		1.1		0.0	0.6	0.2
Household head African American	29.6		75.0			60.0		10.8
χ2e		12.3**		156.6**	14.2**		175.7**
Individual is employed	66.6		57.3			60.3		61.9
χ2e		0.6		0.5	1.1		0.1
Educational attainment
not high school graduate	9.0		16.3			13.9		16.8
high school graduate	20.6		33.6			29.3		26.8
any college	70.4		50.1			56.8		56.4
χ2e		3.7		1.5	4.6†		0.7
Relationship to head
spouse	43.5		42.6			42.9		59.0
child	25.6		33.3			30.7		21.0
other	30.8		24.1			26.3		20.0
χ2e		4.6		9.0*	1.0		12.4**
Age
19–21	15.3		8.9			11.0		10.0
22–29	10.3		17.0			14.8		17.9
30–39	20.4		14.6			16.5		18.7
40–49	25.6		25.6			25.6		20.0
50–64	19.2		22.4			21.3		20.8
65+	9.1		11.5			10.7		12.6
χ2e		4.6		1.9	2.8		3.2
n	64		77			141		22,774

Note.

^aAll estimates are weighted.

^bSource: Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study (DNORPS), pre-Katrina characteristics except for age (which is at the survey date).

^cSource: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), metropolitan United States, Wave 1 characteristics (late 2004) except for age (which is at Wave 5).

^d"Uninhabitable" is designated when the household respondent reports that the housing unit was destroyed or damaged so seriously as to make it uninabitable, or when the housing unit was in a neighborhood with a flood depth of 4 or more feet. All other cases are coded as "Habitable."

^eRao-Scott chi-square test of difference, adjusting for DNORPS and SIPP clustering within households and for the DNORPS stratified sample design.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.