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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2013 Jun;28(2):578–586. doi: 10.1037/a0032718

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the study sample

Variable
Age, mean years (SD) 64.2 (8.9)
Sex
 Female, n (%) 988(59.7)
 Male, n (%) 666 (40.3)
Race/Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic White, n (%) 1381 (83.5)
 Non-Hispanic Black, n (%) 122 (7.4)
 Hispanic, n (%) 119 (7.2)
 Non-Hispanic Other, n (%) 32 (1.9)
Education
 Less than high school, n (%) 198 (12.0)
 GED, n (%) 75 (4.5)
 High school graduate, n (%) 476 (28.8)
 Some college, n (%) 423 (25.6)
 College and above (n, %) 482 (29.1)
Marital Status
 Married, n (%) 1169 (70.7)
 Annulled, n (%) 0 (0.0)
 Never married, n (%) 60 (3.6)
 Separated, n (%) 19 (1.1)
 Divorced, n (%) 192 (11.6)
 Widowed, n (%) 214 (12.9)
Employment Status
 Employed, n (%) 866 (52.4)
 Not Employed, n (%) 788 (47.6)