Table 5.

Rate ratios for association between race/ethnicity/nativity and mortality, U.S. adults ages 65 and older

	Full Sample			Never Smokers
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Females
Race/ethnicity/nativity (ref. = Non-Hispanic white)
Foreign-born Hispanic	0.75**	0.66**	0.74**	0.90	0.81*
	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.09)	(0.09)
U.S.-born Hispanic	0.91	0.82**	0.85*	1.06	0.97
	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.11)	(0.11)
Non-Hispanic black	1.12**	1.01	1.05	1.22**	1.11*
	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.04)
Males
Race/ethnicity/nativity (ref. = Non-Hispanic white)
Foreign-born Hispanic	0.74**	0.63**	0.66**	0.83	0.72*
	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.08)	(0.14)	(0.14)
U.S.-born Hispanic	0.92	0.82**	0.83*	1.06	0.94
	(0.07)	(0.07)	(0.08)	(0.12)	(0.12)
Non-Hispanic black	1.33**	1.15**	1.12**	1.46**	1.27**
	(0.04)	(0.04)	(0.04)	(0.08)	(0.08)

Notes: Models 1 and 4 control for age only. Models 2 and 5 control for age, educational attainment, and poverty status. Model 3 controls for age, educational attainment, poverty status, and smoking status. We suppress rate ratios for educational attainment, poverty status, and smoking status because we are concerned with how adjustment for these variables influences racial/ethnic/nativity differences in older adult mortality rather than the association between these covariates and mortality. This information is available in Tables S2 and S3, Online Resource 1.

Source: 1990–2006 NHIS-LMF (Supplement and Sample Adult files).

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01