. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Jan 29;28(10):1061–1068. doi: 10.1002/gps.3928

Table 1.

Sociodemographic Characteristics

Sociodemographic Variables		Ethnicity								Significant Difference
		Non-Latino White (n = 1247)		African-American (n = 536)		Asian-American (n = 112)		Latino (n = 303)
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F	p
Age		74.1	6.2	72.9	6.0	70.5^*	5.0	72.7	5.8	17.2	<.01
		N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	χ²	p
Years of Education^a										777.3	<.01
	Less than 8^th grade	73	5.9%	111	20.7%^*	60	53.6%^*	204	67.3%^*
	Less than 12^th grade	262	21.0%	183	34.1%^*	14	12.5%^*	30	9.9%^*
	High School Graduate/GED	339	27.2%	119	22.2%	13	11.6%^*	32	10.5%^*
	Some College	300	24.1%	94	17.5%^*	2	1.8%^*	24	7.9%^*
	College Graduate	144	11.5%	17	3.2%^*	21	18.8%	8	2.6%^*
	Graduate School	120	9.6%	11	2.1%^*	2	1.8%^*	4	1.3%^*
Marital Status										177.8	<.01
	Married	732	58.7%	190	35.4%^*	75	67%^*	108	35.6%^*
	Separated	22	1.8%	53	9.9%^*	2	1.8%	36	11.9%^*
	Divorced	168	13.5%	104	19.4%	4	3.6%^*	52	17.2%
	Widowed	262	21.0%	149	27.8%	29	25.9%	84	27.7%
	Never Married	61	4.9%	39	7.3%	2	1.8%	21	6.9%
Place of Birth^b										1673.3	<.01
	US	1188	95.3%	533	99.4%	3	2.7%^*	29	9.6%^*
	Outside US	52	4.2%	3	0.6%	106	94.6%^*	274	90.4%^*
Years in the US										81.7	<.01
	Less than 1 year	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	3	.01%
	1–5 years	0	0%	0	0%	18	16.1%^*	7	2.3%^*
	6–9 years	2	.16%	0	0%	26	23.2%^*	8	2.6%^*
	10+ years	48	3.8%	3	.56%	63	56.3%^*	235	77.6%^*
Psychiatric Illness^c
	Depression	825	66.2%	433	80.8%^*	105	93.8%^*	286	94.4%^*	143.5	<.01
	Anxiety Disorder	325	26.1%	132	24.6%	29	25.9%	64	21.1%	3.5	.48
	At-risk Drinking	458	36.7%	142	26.5%^*	4	3.6%^*	20	6.6%^*	148.7	<.01
	Dual Diagnosis^d	88	7.1%	49	9.1%^*	3	2.7%	7	2.3%^*	19.1	<.01

Notes: Differences in age (df = 3, 2194) were calculated using ANOVA. Differences in years of education (df = 15), marital status (df = 12), place of birth (df = 3), and rates of psychiatric illness (df = 9) were calculated using χ² test. Differences in years in the United States (df = 9) were calculated using Fisher’s exact test. SD: standard deviation; US: United States; GED: General Education Development

11 participants (9 Whites, 1 African-American, 1 Latino) did not report their years of formal education.

10 participants (7 Whites, 3 Asian-Americans) did not report their birth country.

Totals may not add up to 100% since diagnostic categories were not mutually exclusive.

Dual Diagnosis is defined as diagnosis of at risk drinking + diagnosis of depression and/or anxiety.

Signifies difference with Non-Latino Whites