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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2014 Feb 1;33(1):81–96. doi: 10.1007/s11113-013-9312-7

Table 1.

Number of HRS respondents and number of exposure times by race/ethnicity and sex, U.S. adults aged 50 and above, 1998–2008

Race-ethnicity Males
 Females
 Total
Exposure Number (%) Exposure Number (%) Exposure Number (%)
Non-Hispanic
Whites		 35,917 8,658 (77.6) 47,841 11,071 (75.1) 83,758 19,729 (76.2)
Non-Hispanic
Blacks		 5,732 1,511 (13.5) 9,639 2,346 (15.9) 15,371 3,857 (14.9)
All Hispanics 3,875 991 (8.9) 5,444 1,318 (8.9) 9,319 2,309 (8.9)
     U.S.-born
Hispanics		 1,778 445 (4.0) 2,351 554 (3.8) 4,129 999 (3.9)
   Foreign-born
Hispanics		 2,097 546 (4.9) 3,093 764 (5.2) 5,190 1,310 (5.1)
Total 45,524 11,160 (100) 62,924 14,735 (100) 108,448 25,895 (100)

The column totals reflect non-Hispanic whites + non-Hispanic blacks + all Hispanics

Source Health and Retirement Study, 1998–2008