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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Fam Stud. 2014 Nov 4;24(9):2661–2667. doi: 10.1007/s10826-014-0068-4

Table 3. Health characteristics of grandparents responsible for grandchildren by race-ethnicity.

NLW1 % NLB2 % NLO3 % MEX4 % NML5 % Total6 %






Unweighted count7 5,133 1,568 669 1,315 492 9,177
Weighted count8 159,489 56,835 20,723 49,683 19,392 306,122

Disability

Self-Care 5,164 3% 2,088 4% 599 3% 1,590 3% 815 4% 10,256 3%
Independent-living 9,966 6% 4,520 8% 1,501 7% 2,169 4% 930 5% 19,086 6%
Ambulatory 20,676 13% 9,546 17% 2,290 11% 5,089 10% 2,291 12% 39,893 13%
Cognitive 10,253 6% 3,935 7% 1,165 6% 1,852 4% 939 5% 18,144 6%
Hearing 9,428 6% 2,120 4% 841 4% 1,872 4% 514 3% 14,775 5%
Vision 6,316 4% 3,234 6% 919 4% 3,016 6% 516 3% 14,001 5%
1

Non-Latino-Whites;

2

Non-Latino-Blacks;

3

Non-Latino-Others;

4

Mexican-Latinos/as;

5

Non-Mexican-Latinos/as;

6

Total across all race-ethnic groups;

7

Actual number of subjects in microdata;

8

Count of subjects when population weights applied;