Table 1.

Sample demographics for women ages 40-years and older from pooled Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (available years 1996–2007).

	N=64,811
	N	%	SE
Race/Ethnicity
Puerto Ricans	1098	1.1	0.1
Cubans	710	0.5	0.0
Mexicans	7545	5.2	0.4
Other Latinas	2245	2.1	0.1
Blacks	10418	11.4	0.5
Non-Latina Whites	42793	79.7	0.6
Age
40–49	21796	33.0	0.4
50–64	23623	36.3	0.3
65–74	9846	15.3	0.2
75+	9546	15.5	0.3
Education
Less than high school	17352	19.8	0.4
High school	21863	35.8	0.4
Some college	12922	22.1	0.4
College or more	11895	22.3	0.5
Family Incomea
<100%	9779	10.2	0.2
100%–124%	3738	4.6	0.1
125%–199%	9921	13.7	0.2
200%–399%	18670	29.5	0.3
≥ 400%	22703	42.0	0.5
Insurance Status
Private	41704	72.8	0.4
Public	15360	18.9	0.4
Uninsured	7747	8.3	0.2

^aRelative to federal poverty level