Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for all Categorical Variables

	Unweighted N (1,071)	%
Gender
Male	493	46.0
Female	578	54.0
Education
Less than high school	78	7.3
High school graduate	309	28.8
Some college	305	28.5
College graduate and higher	379	35.4
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	961	89.7
Non-Hispanic black	43	4.0
Latino/a or Hispanic	18	1.7
Other	49	4.6
Years lived in neighborhood
<10 years	721	67.3
≥10 years	350	32.7
Contact with neighbors T1-T2
Continuously high contact	184	17.2
Continuously low contact	170	15.9
Gain in contact	251	23.4
Loss in contact	466	43.5
Support from neighbors T1-T2
Continuously high support	144	13.4
Continuously low support	163	15.2
Gain in support	230	21.5
Loss in support	534	49.9

Notes. Data are from 1,071 respondents who were aged between 40 and 70 years at T1 and who participated in two waves of data collection for the 1995–2005 National Survey of Midlife in the United States. Median splits were used to create the multicategorical variables regarding contact and perceived support with neighbors from T1 (1995) to T2 (2005). All other measures were taken from T1 except for race/ethnicity and length of residence, which were used from T2.