Table 1.

Characteristics of 3,046 adults aged 55 years and older by race/ethnicity from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys, 2001–3003

	Non-Hispanic White		African American		Caribbean Black		Latino American		Asian American
	n=1130		n=780		n=262		n=498		n=376
	%a	SE	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	p-valueb
Age group, %
55–64 years	40.0	2.5	47.4	2.1	52.1	5.6	46.0	3.6	46.7	3.7	<0.001
65–74 years	31.7	2.3	36.7	2.3	39.8	5.3	35.7	3.4	36.3	3.7	0.462
75+ years	28.3	1.9	16.0	1.6	8.2	2.1	18.3	2.3	17.1	1.7	<0.001
Female, %	56.4	2.1	59.3	1.8	50.4	5.4	56.0	3.1	54.8	2.6	<0.001
Education, %
<12 years	22.1	2.2	38.4	2.2	36.1	5.5	64.5	3.2	28.5	3.0	<0.001
12 years	35.1	2.2	31.8	2.0	31.3	3.7	15.8	2.1	19.8	2.5	<0.001
≥13 years	42.8	2.4	29.8	2.4	32.6	5.6	19.7	2.4	51.8	3.4	<0.001
Employed, %	34.2	1.5	33.9	2.7	58.7	4.2	27.6	3.6	39.8	4.1	<0.001
Poverty-income level, %
<100% poverty	3.9	0.7	5.9	1.1	3.0	0.9	18.8	2.2	17.7	2.4
100–300% poverty	32.4	1.9	55.9	2.6	47.9	3.9	41.4	3.6	27.6	2.6
≥300% poverty	63.7	1.8	38.2	2.5	49.1	3.9	39.9	3.4	54.7	3.6	<0.001
Married/partner, %	63.2	1.8	40.4	2.3	54.6	7.0	57.8	2.9	76.8	2.8	<0.001
Region, %
Northeast	22.2	3.9	15.7	2.1	48.5	8.3	20.6	2.8	13.8	7.2
Midwest	28.3	3.0	19.3	2.8	8.0	2.2	7.6	2.5	3.5	2.0
South	30.9	3.8	56.0	3.2	36.4	9.8	38.6	5.4	8.0	2.2
West	18.6	3.0	9.0	2.3	7.1	3.4	33.2	4.9	74.8	7.3	<0.001
US-born, %	94.9	1.1	97.0	0.7	28.3	6.0	36.7	4.5	21.1	5.8	<0.001
Among foreign-born only:
Years in US, %
<10 years	n/a		n/a		7.8	2.9	9.6	2.0	21.2	2.5
11 – <20 years	n/a		n/a		17.6	3.0	8.5	1.8	25.8	2.9
≥20 years	n/a		n/a		74.3	4.6	80.6	2.7	53.1	4.4
Age <35 years at immigration, %	n/a		n/a		42.8	4.5	60.5	4.1	30.5	4.8	<0.001

^aWeighted percentage and standard error (SE) adjusted for complex survey design. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding.

^bAdjusted Wald F Test.