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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2010 Dec 23;20(6):969–978. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9813-3

Table 1.

Characteristics of sample and underlying population

White men Black men White women Black women




Sample Pop.%a Sample Pop.%a Sample Pop.%a Sample Pop.%a
N 1,149 370 1,366 693
Age
  35–44 163 27.0 78 38.0 209 31.0 126 43.0
  45–64 465 43.8 154 44.3 511 45.7 281 38.1
  65–89 521 29.2 138 17.7 646 23.2 286 19.0
Marital status
  Single 87 6.1 49 14.1 93 4.8 127 22.2
  Married/Partner 841 80.2 218 61.6 629 73.0 145 38.6
  Div/sep/Widowed 219 13.7 103 24.3 643 22.2 421 39.2
  Missing 2 1
Education
  <HS 82 11.5 53 21.9 131 9.8 142 20.3
  HS 315 32.2 120 39.3 437 34.3 220 34.9
  Some college 225 24.1 83 23.0 323 28.1 167 26.2
  ≥College 518 32.2 112 15.8 470 27.8 163 18.6
  Missing 9 3 5 1
Income
  <$20 K 107 10.9 96 26.9 247 12.0 263 41.1
  $20 ≤ $35 K 179 14.9 69 24.2 268 17.6 132 15.9
  $35 ≤ $75 K 435 40.1 121 35.1 404 35.0 151 26.3
  >$75 K 368 34.1 63 13.8 304 35.4 73 16.7
  Missing 60 21 143 74
a

Weighted to US population age 35 within each group with missing values imputed