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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2013 Jun 16;25(5):737–757. doi: 10.1177/0898264313490199

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of all variables used in this study (n=1,784)

Minimum Maximum Mean or Proportion Std. Deviation
Response variable
Receiving prostate cancer Screening in the past year 0.000 1.000 0.575 0.494
Explanatory variable
Distrust
  Competence distrust −2.835 4.028 0.000 1.000
  Values distrust −4.129 2.877 0.000 1.000
Demographics
  Age 45.000 75.000 56.628 8.066
 Race/ethnicity
  White (Ref.)$ 0.000 1.000 0.766 0.423
  Black 0.000 1.000 0.172 0.377
  Hispanic 0.000 1.000 0.031 0.172
  Other races 0.000 1.000 0.032 0.175
 Marital Status
  Single (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.127 0.333
  Married/Cohabiting 0.000 1.000 0.752 0.432
  Widowed/divorced/separated (WDS) 0.000 1.000 0.121 0.326
SES
 Poverty status
  Non-poor (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.926 0.262
  Poor 0.000 1.000 0.074 0.262
 Employment status
  Other statuses (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.307 0.461
  Employed 0.000 1.000 0.646 0.478
  Unemployed 0.000 1.000 0.046 0.210
 Educational attainment
  No high school diploma (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.068 0.252
  High school graduate 0.000 1.000 0.290 0.454
  Some college 0.000 1.000 0.185 0.388
  College 0.000 1.000 0.256 0.437
  Post college diploma 0.000 1.000 0.201 0.401
Health care resources
 Insurance status
  Uninsured (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.053 0.223
  Insured 0.000 1.000 0.947 0.223
 Regular source of care
  No regular source of care (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.084 0.277
  With regular source of care 0.000 1.000 0.916 0.277
Health Status
  Self-rated Health
  Excellent (Ref.) 0.000 1.000 0.306 0.461
  Good 0.000 1.000 0.490 0.500
  Fair 0.000 1.000 0.163 0.370
  Poor 0.000 1.000 0.040 0.197

For dummy variables, the mean values could be interpreted as the proportion of those coded 1 in each group.

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Ref. indicates reference group in the logistic regression model.