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Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2009 Sep;50(3):344–358. doi: 10.1177/002214650905000307

TABLE 2.

Coefficients from Regressions^a of Health Measures on Current Marital Status, 1992 Health and Retirement Study

	Model 1
	Number of Chronic Conditions	Number of Mobility Limitations	Self-Rated Health	Depressive Symptoms
Marital Status
Currently Married	—	—	—	—
Previously Married	.18^***	.21^***	.42^***	.18^***
Never Married	.04	.12^*	.31^***	.13^***
Age	.04^***	.02^***	.04^***	−.004^**
Male	.05^*	−.36^***	.02	−.06^***
Black^b	.22^***	.15^***	.67^***	.05^**
Hispanic^b	−.15^***	−.16^**	.23^*	.03
Years of Education	−.04^***	−.09^***	−.19^***	−.03^***
Long-term Condition	.32^***	.74^***	1.58^***	.25^***
Constant	−2.08^***	.03		1.97^***
Cut-point 1			−1.35
Cut-point 2			.06
Cut-point 3			1.51
Cut-point 4			2.84
N^c	8,809	8,512	8,809	8,809
Log Likelihood	−10,304	−11,561	−12,625
χ²	368	616	1,317
F				114
(df)	(8)	(8)	(8)	(8,121)

p ≤ .05;

^**

p ≤ .01;

^***

p ≤ .001

Model specification varies by the metric of the outcome variable: chronic conditions (range 0–6) and mobility limitations (range 0–5) — negative binomial; self-rated health (range 1–5) —ordered logit; depression index (range 1–4) — OLS. Higher values indicate worse health.

Reference category is non-Hispanic white.

Standard errors calculated taking into account the clustered sampling design of the HRS.