Table 1.

The proportion of persons who ever applied for SSI or SSDI, the proportion between the ages 50 and 62 who were ever received SSI or SSDI, and the proportion between the ages 62 and 64 who claimed Social Security benefits early, by gender, by health quintile, and by education

	Women						Men
Applied for DI
	Health quintile						Health quintile
Education	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All
< HS	0.76	0.34	0.16	0.08	0.17	0.39	0.78	0.48	0.23	0.12	0.16	0.36
GED or HS grad	0.61	0.23	0.09	0.04	0.05	0.19	0.71	0.33	0.14	0.07	0.07	0.21
Some college	0.62	0.20	0.09	0.04	0.04	0.15	0.72	0.32	0.10	0.06	0.04	0.17
College or more	0.43	0.11	0.04	0.01	0.01	0.06	0.57	0.22	0.08	0.03	0.02	0.07
All	0.64	0.22	0.09	0.04	0.04	0.18	0.72	0.34	0.12	0.06	0.05	0.18
Received DI
	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All
< HS	0.51	0.19	0.09	0.05	0.11	0.25	0.63	0.34	0.16	0.09	0.11	0.27
GED or HS grad	0.47	0.15	0.06	0.03	0.03	0.13	0.57	0.24	0.09	0.05	0.05	0.16
Some college	0.48	0.14	0.07	0.03	0.02	0.11	0.49	0.23	0.06	0.03	0.03	0.11
College or more	0.35	0.09	0.03	0.01	0.01	0.05	0.48	0.17	0.04	0.02	0.01	0.05
All	0.47	0.14	0.06	0.02	0.03	0.13	0.56	0.24	0.08	0.04	0.04	0.13
Early Social Security claiming
	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All	1st (low)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	All
< HS	0.81	0.63	0.71	0.72	0.62	0.71	0.66	0.76	0.73	0.56	0.62	0.66
GED or HS grad	0.61	0.68	0.61	0.66	0.52	0.62	0.62	0.58	0.56	0.51	0.58	0.56
Some college	0.75	0.52	0.54	0.55	0.39	0.52	0.65	0.48	0.53	0.5	0.52	0.52
College or more	0.53	0.57	0.46	0.45	0.34	0.44	0.28	0.34	0.47	0.44	0.37	0.4
All	0.69	0.62	0.58	0.59	0.45	0.57	0.59	0.56	0.55	0.49	0.49	0.52