Table 2.

Select demographics by race/ethnicity among adults ≥18 years of age: National Health Interview Survey, 2000–2007

	Black Hispanic n = 896	White Hispanic n = 34605	Non-Hispanic black n = 32915
Age (mean ± SE)	37.7 ± 15.1	41.0 ± 16.0*	45.1 ± 17.0†
Gender, %
Men	37.6	44.8*	37.9
Women	62.4	55.2*	62.1
Education, %
Less than 9th grade	13.8	25.8*	6.4†
9th to 12th grade	20.8	20.0	16.9†
High school	23.2	24.4	30.7†
Graduate/GED
Some college	29.5	20.2*	30.5
College graduate	12.7	9.6*	15.4†
Income, %
$0–34999	65.9	61.7*	62.6
$35000–74999	24.9	28.3*	27.3
$75000+	9.3	10.0	10.1
Marital status, %
Never married	37.3	22.2*	34.4
Married/living as married	40.2	57.2*	33.0†
Divorced/separated	19.3	15.1*	22.3†
Widowed	3.2	5.6*	10.3†
Nativity, %
US born	46.4	38.9*	91.2†
Foreign born	53.6	61.1*	8.8†
Language of interview, %
English	76.2	58.3*	99.9†
English and Spanish	8.6	14.9*	0.0†
Spanish	15.2	26.8*	0.1†

p Values are by the χ² statistic for gender, education, income, marital status, nativity and language of interview and by the t statistic for age.

^*p Values (>0.05) for comparisons of black Hispanics with white Hispanics.

^†p Values (>0.05) for comparisons of black Hispanics with non-Hispanic blacks.

GED; general equivalency diploma.