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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2012 Oct 27;22(7):1685–1696. doi: 10.1007/s11136-012-0296-2

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the three samples

Characteristics Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
N % N % N %
Gender
 Male 1,641 42.7 261 48.8 469 51.3
 Female 2,203 57.3 274 51.2 446 48.7
Age
 18–34 322 35.2
 35–44 642 16.7 29 5.4 170 18.6
 45–64 1,510 39.3 215 40.2 411 44.9
 65–89 1,692 44.0 291 54.4 12 1.3
Race
 White 2,562 66.7 451 84.3 503 55.0
 Black 1,086 28.3 28 5.2 121 13.2
 Other 178 4.6 30 5.6 280 30.6
 Missing 18 0.5 26 4.9 11 1.2
Education
 < High school 464 12.1 39 7.3
 High school 1,159 30.2 104 19.4
 Some post-high school 856 22.3 161 30.1
 ≥4-yr college degree 1,341 34.9 212 39.6
 Missing 24 0.6 19 3.6
Total 3,844 100 535 100 915 100