Table 1.

Demographic and denomination distribution of sample

Demographic variables	African Americans		Black Caribbeans		Non-Hispanic Whites
	%	N	%	N	%	N
Age (years)
18–24	16.14	482	19.18	251	13.09	86
25–34	19.59	750	22.69	373	16.65	137
35–54	42.65	1501	38.75	693	41.97	370
55 and older	21.62	837	19.38	304	28.29	298
Mean	42.32		40.27		44.98
S.D.	14.49		5.77		31.11
Education
0–11 years	24.19	920	21.23	306	15.15	149
12 years	37.86	1362	29.65	481	31.16	293
13–15 years	23.83	809	26.06	443	24.82	216
16 or more years	14.12	479	23.07	391	28.87	233
Mean	12.42		12.93		13.32
S.D.	2.22		0.99		4.98
Income
Less than $18,000	30.79	1315	21.05	368	19.52	212
$18,000–$31,999	25.17	930	24.94	436	21.10	207
$32,000–$54,999	23.72	781	22.45	391	26.42	228
$55,000 or more	20.32	544	31.56	426	32.96	244
Mean	36,845		47,017		47,397
S.D.	33,236		15,241		75,265
Gender
Male	44.02	1271	50.87	643	47.25	372
Female	55.97	2299	49.13	978	52.74	519
Marital status
Married	32.91	960	37.56	559	47.35	383
Partner	8.74	260	12.57	131	6.59	44
Separated	7.16	286	5.36	128	3.10	37
Divorced	11.74	524	9.29	178	13.05	147
Widowed	7.89	353	4.28	78	7.83	103
Never married	31.54	1170	30.91	542	22.05	173
Region
Northeast	15.69	411	55.69	1135	22.67	107
North Central	18.81	595	4.05	12	7.96	83
South	56.24	2330	29.11	456	54.60	609
West	9.25	234	11.14	18	14.76	92
Functional status
Mean	0.313	3570	0.254	1621	0.280	891
S.D.	0.054		0.022		1.04
Country of origin
Spanish	–		14.07	180	–
Haiti	–		12.64	298	–
Jamaica	–		31.72	510	–
Trinidad and Tobago	–		9.98	170	–
Other English	–		31.57	440	–
Years in the U.S.
U.S. born	–		36.58	440	–
Less than 5 years	–		8.07	119	–
6–10 years	–		8.44	164	–
11–20 years	–		20.20	357	–
21 years or more	–		26.70	490	–
Denomination
Baptist	49.08	1865	20.52	278	21.18	240
Methodist	5.87	216	3.17	66	6.90	71
Pentecostal	8.61	304	8.70	152	3.88	32
Catholic	5.95	202	18.66	367	20.21	157
Episcopal	0.45	17	3.31	80	2.05	20
Seventh Day Adventist	0.71	21	4.22	87	0.26	2
Other Protestant	16.53	528	25.10	333	23.45	201
Other religion	2.25	71	3.56	56	6.53	43
No religion	10.50	344	12.72	194	15.50	122

Percents are weighted; frequencies are unweighted