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Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2014 Dec;1(4):309–318. doi: 10.1007/s40615-014-0038-y

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Women in the Americans' Changing Lives Cohort (1986–2002)

	Wave1		Wave 2		Wave 3		Wave 4
Response Rates	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Responders	2194	100	1779	81.08	1597	72.79	1107	50.46
Dead			91	4.15	283	12.9	390	17.78
Non-Responders			324	14.77	314	14.31	697	31.77
Variables	Mean ^a	Std.dev ^a	Mean ^a	Std.dev ^a	Mean ^a	Std.dev ^a	Mean ^a	Std.dev ^a
Time varying variables
BMI	25.16	4.62	25.55	4.84	26.11	5.11	27.04	5.83
Missing (n,%)			415	18.92	597	27.21	1087	49.54
Income ^b	26440.54	18344.75	30388.17	27547.31	30009.30	29271.02	37148.91	68449.65
Missing (n,%)			415	18.92	597	27.21	1088	49.59
Financial Security	−0.02	0.93	0.08	0.89	0.07	0.93	0.24	0.95
Missing (n,%)			415	18.92	713	32.50	1153	52.55
Wealth	1.30	1.46	1.47	1.60	2.09	1.72	3.28	1.94
Missing (n,%)	184.00	8.39	530	24.16	680	30.99	1217	55.47
Time stable variables
Age	48.66	15.35
	N	Percent ^a
Race
Whites	1416	87.49
Blacks	778	12.51
Perceived Childhood Financial Status
High	1542	73.69
Low	234	10.39
Missing	418	15.92
Father's Education
>=12yrs	532	41.05
<12yrs	957	35.91
Missing	705	23.04
Education
<12 years	846	26.06
>=12 years	1348	73.09

BMI :Body Mass Index

design based estimates of means, standard deviation and percentage represent 1986 US population

Inflation adjusted to represent 1986 dollars