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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Community Psychol. 2014 Dec;54(0):219–228. doi: 10.1007/s10464-014-9666-y

Table 2.

Rates of experienced racial discrimination by age and sex

Overall Females Males Age
30–39 40–49 50–65
N 502 303 199 93 200 209
School (%) 19 16 25 9 28 21
Getting a job (%) 38 32 48 31 37 44
Work (%) 41 35 51 37 40 45
Getting housing (%) 17 15 20 10 17 20
Getting medical care (%) 13 13 13 8 14 14
From police/court (%) 33 19 55 25 40 32
Frequency
 Not at all (%) 19 24 11 27 18 16
 A little (%) 35 37 33 38 38 32
 Some (%) 26 25 28 20 27 29
 A lot (%) 20 14 28 15 18 23

Percentages rounded to whole numbers. Age recorded in years. Across all experiences, 83 % of participants reported at least one experience with racial discrimination