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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2014 Sep 8;69(1):63–69. doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203256

Table 1. Characteristics of study population distributed by neighbourhood SES (n=3591).

Neighbourhood SES

Overall Low Medium High
Total population, %* 100 21.2 46.1 32.7
Gender, %
 Female 54.7 22.3 44.5 33.1
 Male 45.3 19.6 48.2 32.2
Age in years, mean (SE) 53.5 (0.47) 52.7 (0.86) 54.3 (0.73) 57.1 (0.94)
Race/ethnicity, %
 African-American 29.4 43.2 46.0 10.8
 Hispanic 13.5 37.8 44.5 17.8
 Caucasian 57.1 5.7 46.7 47.5
SES, %
 Low 42.8 33.1 45.4 21.5
 Medium 44.3 14.1 47.4 38.6
 High 12.9 5.4 45.0 49.6
Marital status, %
 Married 47.9 17.9 48.8 33.4
 Divorced 27.0 24.1 43.7 32.2
 Single/other 25.1 24.3 44.4 31.3
Sleep duration in Sleep duration category, % 6.6 (0.04) 6.4 (0.08) 6.6 (0.07) 6.9 (0.09)
hours, mean (SE)
 Very short (<5 h) 9.1 15.5 10.0 3.7
 Short (5–6.9 h) 36.7 40.5 36.9 33.9
 Normative (7–8.9 h) 47.3 36.2 46.6 55.5
 Long (≥9 h) 6.9 7.8 6.4 6.9
*

Per cents are weighted.

p<0.0001 from multilevel model.

SES, socioeconomic status.