Table 3.

Cox Proportional Hazards Models for Mortality by Race in the NLSMW, 1967-2003

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variables	Black	White	Black	White	Black	White
Status characteristics and locus of control
Age, 1967	1.085***a (1.051, 1.120)	1.055***b (1.030, 1.082)	1.085*** (1.052, 1.120)	1.054*** (1.029, 1.081)	1.074*** (1.039, 1.109)	1.026* (1.000, 1.053)
Education, 1967	1.004 (0.949, 1.062)	0.952 (0.902, 1.005)	1.016 (0.960, 1.075)	0.956 (0.905, 1.009)	1.016 (0.958, 1.077)	0.990 (0.937, 1.047)
South, 1967c	0.809 (0.603, 1.087)	1.129 (0.902, 1.413)	0.858 (0.635, 1.160)	1.137 (0.908, 1.425)	0.820 (0.606, 1.109)	1.094 (0.871, 1.375)
External locus of   control, 1969	0.999 (0.974, 1.024)	1.007 (0.987, 1.028)	1.002 (0.977, 1.027)	1.008 (0.987, 1.028)	1.010 (0.985, 1.035)	1.016 (0.996, 1.036)
Employment characteristics
Type of occupation, 1967d
Clerical	1.516 (0.785, 2.925)	1.275 (0.903, 1.799)	1.494 (0.774, 2.886)	1.273 (0.902, 1.796)	1.298 (0.668, 2.523)	1.217 (0.861, 1.721)
Sales	0.603 (0.136, 2.677)	1.802* (1.128, 2.878)	0.661 (0.148, 2.941)	1.764* (1.102, 2.824)	0.488 (0.108, 2.208)	1.716* (1.066, 2.761)
Craft, operative,    laborers,    farm	1.516 (0.778, 2.954)	1.418 (0.929, 2.164)	1.377 (0.703, 2.698)	1.401 (0.918, 2.140)	1.377 (0.698, 2.717)	1.299 (0.848, 1.990)
Private    household	1.415 (0.704, 2.844)	1.209 (0.417, 3.504)	1.288 (0.637, 2.602)	1.194 (0.412, 3.460)	1.132 (0.554, 2.312)	1.143 (0.391, 3.340)
Service	1.318 (0.688, 2.524)	1.677* (1.080, 2.603)	1.227 (0.639, 2.358)	1.652* (1.063, 2.567)	1.183 (0.608, 2.303)	1.555 (0.996, 2.428)
Full-time, 1967	0.950 (0.720, 1.252)	1.159 (0.941, 1.428)	0.939 (0.713, 1.237)	1.164 (0.944, 1.434)	0.914 (0.691, 1.208)	1.078 (0.865, 1.342)
Occupational   prestige, 1967-77	1.000 (0.991, 1.010)	0.997 (0.991, 1.003)	1.003 (0.993, 1.013)	0.998 (0.992, 1.004)	1.004 (0.994, 1.013)	0.997 (0.991, 1.003)
Unemployed,   1967-77	0.972 (0.789, 1.199)	1.159 (0.966, 1.390)	0.966 (0.783, 1.191)	1.151 (0.959, 1.381)	1.014 (0.821, 1.252)	1.224* (1.020, 1.469)
Work trajectories  Perceived work   trajectories,   1967-77			0.860* (0.763, 0.969)	0.954 (0.866, 1.051)	0.869* (0.767, 0.983)	0.997 (0.906, 1.098)
Health characteristics  Self-rated healthe					1.037 (0.892, 1.205)	0.861* (0.763, 0.972)
Health limitation,   1967					1.109 (0.833, 1.476)	1.223 (0.991, 1.508)
Family life
Marital status, 1967f
Divorced					1.253 (0.890, 1.762)	1.502* (1.083, 2.082)
Widowed					1.526 (0.823, 2.829)	1.098 (0.514, 2.345)
Never married					1.288 (0.782, 2.121)	1.170 (0.728, 1.879)
Divorced, 1968-2003					1.034 (0.711, 1.504)	0.882 (0.644, 1.207)
Number of children, 1967					0.972 (0.927, 1.020)	0.910** (0.855, 0.968)
Income and wealth  Personal income (S)e					0.939*** (0.923, 0.955)	0.967*** (0.955, 0.979)
Household wealth (S)e					1.001** (1.000, 1.002)	0.999*** (0.999, 1.000)
χ 2	33.18	50.72	39.12	51.62	95.54	164.65
df	12	12	13	13	22	22
N	646	1,535	646	1,535	646	1,535

^aHazard ratio and confidence interval in parentheses.

^bChow test indicates coefficients are significantly different for Black and White respondents (p < .05).

^cReference group: other regions.

^dReference group: professional, technical, and managerial occupations.

^eTime-dependent covariate.

^fReference group: married.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001 (two-tailed).