Table 1. Study participant characteristics: sociodemographic and socioeconomic profile: 504 black US-born and 501 white US-born community health center members, My Body My Story (Boston, MA, 2008–2010).
| Variable | Observed data | Missing: N (%) | |||
| Black | White | Black | White | ||
| Age (mean (SD)): | years | 48.6 (8.0) | 49.0 (8.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Gender (%): | women | 69.2 | 63.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Household income: categorical (%): | <$48,000 per year (%) | 58.8 | 46.4 | 62 (12.3) | 35 (7.0) |
| Poverty: (% US poverty line) (%): | <50% below | 11.1 | 6.9 | 63 (12.5) | 36 (7.2) |
| 50% to 100% | 22.7 | 14.4 | |||
| >100 and <200% | 21.8 | 18.5 | |||
| > = 200 and <400% | 19.1 | 19.1 | |||
| > = 400% | 25.4 | 41.1 | |||
| Education (%): | less than high school | 16.1 | 9.9 | 0 | 4 (0.8) |
| > = high school but <4 yrs college | 68.5 | 56.5 | |||
| > = 4 yrs college | 15.5 | 33.6 | |||
| Occupational class (%): | Owner/self-employed/supervisor | 20.9 | 34.6 | 1 (0.2) | 4 (0.8) |
| Non-supervisory employee | 36.2 | 29.0 | |||
| Unemployed/Not in paid labor force/Other | 42.9 | 36.4 | |||
| Debt (%): | owe > = $5,000 to creditors | 39.8 | 53.3 | 142 (28.2) | 66 (13.2) |
| Wealth (other than home) (%): | no financial assets* | 78.7 | 54.2 | 72 (14.3) | 40 (8.0) |
| any financial assets | 21.3 | 45.8 | |||
| high financial assets (> = $5,000) | 7.2 | 30.6 | 88 (17.5) | 63 (12.6) | |
| Household received public assistance (%): | as a child | 52.8 | 33.2 | 50 (9.9) | 25 (5.0) |
| in the last year | 43.6 | 28.6 | 18 (3.6) | 8 (1.6) | |
| Housing tenure (%): | rent for cash | 68.2 | 46.6 | 26 (5.2) | 12 (2.4) |
| paying mortgage | 22.6 | 42.5 | |||
| paying mortgage | 3.8 | 6.1 | |||
| occupy without paying rent cash | 5.4 | 4.7 | |||
| Census tract poverty (2005–2009) (%): | <5% below poverty | 6.8 | 18.5 | 18 (3.6) | 36 (7.2) |
| 5–9% below poverty | 8.4 | 27.1 | |||
| 10–19% below poverty | 32.1 | 30.5 | |||
| 20–39% below poverty (“poverty area”) | 38.5 | 20.6 | |||
| > = 40% below poverty (“extreme poverty area”) | 14.2 | 3.2 | |||
| Jim Crow birthplace status§ (%): | born in Jim Crow state before 1965 | 27.2 | 3.8 | 0 | 1 (0.2) |
| born in Jim Crow state during or after 1965 | 3.0 | 2.0 | |||
| not born in Jim Crow state | 69.8 | 94.2 | |||
| Parent/guardian born in US (%): | mother/female guardian | 94.8 | 91.2 | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.4) |
| father/male guardian | 93.7 | 90.5 | 11 (2.2) | 7 (1.4) | |
| Parents'/guardians' education: highest attained by either parent/guardian (%): | less than high school | 27.3 | 12.0 | 83 (16.5) | 33 (6.7) |
| > = high school but <4 yrs college | 55.1 | 51.3 | |||
| > = 4 yrs college | 17.6 | 36.8 | |||
| Parents'/guardians' education: at most high school degree or GED (general equivalence diploma (%): | mother/female guardian | 70.5 | 61.3 | 90 (17.9) | 39 (7.8) |
| father/male guardian | 72.0 | 54.9 | 136 (27.0) | 64 (12.8) | |
Note: values in bold indicate that, for the specified variables, the difference in distribution by race/ethnicity is statistically significant (p<0.05), using relevant non-parametric tests.
*financial assets: bonds, treasury notes, IRA's, certificates of deposit, shares of stocks or mutual funds; does not include value of home.
§
Jim Crow states/district : District of Columbia plus Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming [51].