Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of self-rated health and covariates, by gender and race.

	Men	Women	White		Black
			Men	Women	Men	Women
Outcome
Fair/Poor Health (%)	15.5	16.2	14.6	14.5	22.3	26.5
Covariates
Age	49.9	49.9	50.1	50.2	48.0	47.7
Period	1992.1	1989.6	1991.8	1989.2	1994.2	1992.2
Cohort	1942.2	1939.7	1941.7	1938.9	1946.2	1944.5
Region of residence
Northeast (%)	21.2	21.7	21.7	22.3	17.6	18.6
North Central/Mid-west (%)	26.3	26.8	27.3	27.9	19.4	19.7
South (%)	33.9	34.4	31.2	31.3	52.6	52.9
West (%)	18.6	17.1	19.8	18.5	10.4	8.8
Marital status
Married (%)	69.6	63.1	72.0	67.0	54.5	39.9
Never married (%)	13.5	8.9	12.4	7.0	20.3	20.2
Divorced/Widowed/Separated (%)	16.9	28.0	15.6	26.0	25.2	39.9
Missing marital status (%)	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.9	1.1
Family size	2.5	2.7	2.5	2.7	2.6	2.9
Education level
High school degree or less (%)	57.5	62.9	53.0	61.2	65.9	67.9
Some college (%)	20.9	20.2	20.9	20.2	21.0	20.3
College degree or more (%)	24.5	17.6	26.1	18.6	13.1	11.8
Employment status
Employed (%)	68.4	49.9	68.9	49.1	64.6	54.2
Unemployed, Looking (%)	3.2	2.6	2.9	2.3	5.1	4.5
Unemployed, Not Looking (%)	10.8	27.6	10.0	27.9	16.2	25.9
Retired (%)	17.6	19.9	18.2	20.7	14.1	15.4
Missing employment status (%)	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.6
Family income	15,634	14,045	16,055	14,636	12,782	10,531
Missing family income	9.8	11.5	9.4	11.1	12.5	14.0
Cohort characteristics
Relative cohort size at labor market entry	13.2	13.2	13.2	13.2	13.2	13.2
Macro-economic conditions at birth	−0.03	−0.04	−0.03	−0.04	−0.03	−0.03
% of cohort with Southern residencea			28.32	28.49	52.03	52.35
% of cohort with farm residencea			19.46	21.02	27.98	29.75
% of cohort with large familya			31.80	32.80	52.03	52.35
Infant mortality ratea			48.73	52.92	74.14	78.14
N	592,141	920,956	515,975	788,226	76,166	155,714

^aRace-specific measures.